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InfoWorld: Security by Numbers?

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Dec 10, 2002

[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood
for this link. ]

“A recent Aberdeen Group report claims that open source is less
secure than Windows.

“And how did they come to this profound conclusion? Apparently,
they counted the number of CERT advisories in the past couple of
years and found more associated with open-source software than with
Windows.

“Unfortunately, that’s like comparing the number of humans to
ants and concluding that ants must be the dominant species due to
their larger numbers. Simple numbers can yield incorrect
conclusions when taken out of context…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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