Bugtraq stats.

Contributed by Dengue on 2000-05-18 from the put-up-or-shut-up dept.

Noryungi writes : "This article on ZDNet is all about the BUGTRAQ stats -- NT being the "worst" operating system for security systems (as if that's a surprise). What's more interesting for OpenBSD is the short list at the end of the article in which we can see that OpenBSD has a grand total of less than 10 security issues reported in the last 4 years. Sweet... "

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By Hugo Villeneuve () hugo_villeneuve@yahoo.com on 2000-05-19 04:00 mailto:hugo_villeneuve@yahoo.com

If you follow bugtraq religiously like me, you have to ask yourself, what's counting as a security bug in the OS.

Cause FreeBSD sends big security announcement for each security bug for programs in its port tree. Do they count also?

I don't have a problem with Microsoft count. I'm happy I don't use their product much.
By Boris () on 2000-05-19 12:25

OpenBSD 4 bugs in 1999.
Way too much. Very scary.
By Joe@Blowfish.ch () on 2000-05-19 21:04

Let's not forget that other operating systems are used much more than OpenBSD. I think that if more people used OpenBSD more security bugs would be found.

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