Forwarded from: Dude VanWinkle <dudevanwinkle (at) gmail.com> On Nov 20, 2007 11:30 AM, InfoSec News <alerts@private> wrote: > Forwarded from: security curmudgeon <jericho (at) attrition.org> > : 4. A Superlative Security Record > : > : Security is a top priority for Ubuntu, which has been rated No. 1 for > : security update quality and responsiveness in recent studies. Security > : updates are freely available to all users of Ubuntu, with no > : subscription required. Ubuntu is also conservative with updates; every > : change made to the operating system or to the base applications is > : peer reviewed for security. And of course, being an open source > : platform, Ubuntu inherits the positive security characteristics of > : Linux in general. > > http://www.ubuntu.com/usn > > Uh, load this page and explain to me again how this is "superlative"? Superlative is not always the amount of exploits, but who discovered them and how fast they were repaired. I trust a product more if the authors discover and patch their own vulnerabilities. Ubuntu does this to an extent, but considering ~700 megs of code are in it, its not surprising they don't discover all the vulnerabilities by themselves.. -JP __________________________________________________________________ Visit InfoSec News http://www.infosecnews.org/
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