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US-CERT's FUD
Thursday January 05, 2006 (07:30 PM GMT)
By: Joe Brockmeier and Joe Barr

Everywhere you look in the trade press today, you'll find glowing
misrepresentations of US-CERT's latest annual summary of vulnerabilities
discovered in 2005. If you take the summary findings at face value, you
would likely conclude that Windows -- with 812 reported vulnerabilities
-- is a much safer operating system than something called "Unix/Linux,"
which totaled 2,328. The US-CERT summaries have become the fodder for a
FUD festival, and many scribes sympathetic to the Microsoft cause go out
of their way to make sure the real picture never emerges.

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