Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 4th Jan 2006 12:44 UTC
"The United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team released its year-end summary of computer vulnerabilities. While Windows is regarded as the most insecure operating system, the US-CERT found four times as many vulnerabilities specifically related to Unix and Linux. Of 5198 reported flaws, 812 were for the Windows, 2328 for Unix and Linux, and 2058 more affected more than one operating system. Notably missing from the list of Windows vulnerabilities is the recently discovered Windows Metafile issue. No vulnerabilities were listed for Apple's Mac OS X, however several had been disclosed during the year. Also, since OS X is based on Unix, it is vulnerable to some of the flaws associated with its core operating system." Note: The link is fixed. I have no idea what happened there, sorry guys!
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2005-10-02
This news got posted because I know people are interested in knowing things like this. Of course these comparisons are always skewed and full of errors-- but what if this exact same report said that UNIX had less flaws then Windows? Would you also complained in the same way you just did?
I already knew about the list from CERT. And if you look in my post, you can see I'm also writing that the list is screwed up for Windows as well. I actually write this several times.
So the answer is: If you had said Windows had more flaws than Linux I would complain, yes (because I knew about the list already). And then I'd have asked you for a list with all duplicates removed
But it still beats me how you can link to such a lousy article. We both know you can do better