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Interesting...Windows security flaws < UNIX's?

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Aloone_Jonez:
It'd total bullshit, you can only count vunerabilities in core system componants like the network services and kernel and what's with counting the same ones more than once.

piratePenguin:

--- Quote from: Aloone_Jonez ---It'd total bullshit, you can only count vunerabilities in core system componants like the network services and kernel and what's with counting the same ones more than once.
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Even then it's still numbers.

Something like "one year on default Ubuntu + updates and one year on default Windows XP + updates - who's been safer?" would be more useful. (I can't imagine Windows not having it's ass handed to it because, afterall, it ships with IE with ActiveX enabled.)

inane:
These people are ran by the National Cyber Security Division and according to Wikipedia "An audit of the division, conducted by DHS's inspector general Clark Kent Ervin, cast a negative view on the division's first year. Although the report praised the formation of the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) and its cyber alert system, the division received criticism for failures to set priorities, develop strategic plans and failing to provide effective leadership in cyber security issues."

Secondly keep in mind that they probably run on some POSIX variant...

Pathos:
The numbers are not indicative of the true number of security flaws.

but I think we have to realize XP has had no real enhancements since it was released and has been getting security reports for years and has only been making changes as required.

Linux is always being extended and I don't think its had the same coverage that windows has had in the past.

H_TeXMeX_H:
How about this ... get a 1337 haxxor and ask him which system is easier to hack Window$ or Linux (when both are "properly configured") ... I'm betting on Window$. Or put them to the test, see which one is compromised faster, easier.

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