Re: Windows vulnerability vs Linux vulnerability [Re: Would a firewall

From: Lars M. Hansen (badnews_at_hansenonline.net)
Date: 05/07/04 

Date: Fri, 07 May 2004 19:07:36 GMT

On Fri, 07 May 2004 14:38:04 -0400, Rowland spoketh

>I'm not missing the correlation. I'm questioning it. You haven't
>controlled for all the variables here. That's my point. All patches
>are not equal.

Can we agree on patches marked "security related" on the RH errata list
is a security related patch, and as such would be reasonably equal to
security related patch issued from Microsoft? If so, then that doesn't
change the number of patches I counted. I bet if do a google search,
you'll find my original from 2 years back with the actual numbers in
it...

Lars M. Hansen
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