Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 21st Aug 2007 18:19 UTC, submitted by SEJeff
Jeff Jones has published another one of his vulnerability scorecards comparing various operating system offerings. As always, these figures just list the patched vulnerabilities over the designated period of time; they do not take into account any unfixed or undisclosed vulnerabilities. Hence, these reports are not proper measurements of security - they are just that, a tally of fixed vulnerabilities. Any conclusions like "x is more secure than y" cannot be drawn from this data set. As always, do with it as you please.
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2005-08-28
Uh, keep in mind this is just how many vulnerabilities have been fixed, not how many vulnerabilities there ARE.
With this data, you could just as easily say Windows had fewer bugs and that's why they haven't found as many, or that Microsoft is just having a hard time finding the bugs in their systems.