Re: Positive press for Debian's security team
On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 05:24:29PM -0600, James Miller wrote:
> > Positive press for Debian's security team.
> >
> > Using numbers from a pair of metrics, Forrester Research's
> > recommendation was "businesses that value quick patches look to
> > Microsoft and Debian".
> >
> > Full article at
> > http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1738&e=2&u=/zd/200
> 40330/tc_zd/123143
>
> "Debian had the least number of distribution days of risk for the Linux
> vendors but only fixed 96.2 percent of the vulnerabilities."
>
> I wonder what 3.8% wasn't fixed?
A better question would be how they determined the applicability of the
vulnerabilities. This is a non-trivial job even for many individual
vulnerabilities, and they claim to have surveyed hundreds.
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- mdz
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