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Story: Linux and Unix 'had more vulnerabilities than Windows'
Posted by: Anonymous (Friday 6 January 2006, 10:52 AM)
What matters isn't the amount of vulnerabilities, nor how many have been patched, nor how many have exploits in the wild.
What matters is how critical these vulnerabilities are, and Windows vulnerabilites are usually far more critical than those of any other OS.
I'd rather be using a system with 200 vulnerabilities, 150 of them having an exploit in the wild, and all of them being rated as not critical, than a system with 3 vulnerabilities, with only 1 having an exploit in the wild, and being rated as highly critical.
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Story: Linux and Unix 'had more vulnerabilities than Windows'
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So ALL UNIX like operating systems combined had ab... Walt Reed
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