Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 18th Sep 2005 12:39 UTC, submitted by J-S-H
A recent blog post on ZDNet contends that Firefox is not as secure as promised by counting exploits. Joseph Huang contends that severity and the number of unpatched vulnerabilites matters, not just the number of exploits discovered.
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2005-08-17
If I create a closed source application that only a few people use and no security flaws are found in it because of it's non-wide spread use. Is it more secure?
Open source applications should generally have more reported vurnerabilities because there are more eyes on the code.
Now if the number of reported vurnerabilities doesn't reduce over time then we do have a problem.