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We're probably not the only ones running outdated software (feddit.org)

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Fun fact: The outdated software runs on outdated hardware, too.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

yes and no. if you look at the number of reported CVEs, debian takes the crown of all operating systems. still feeling more secure on linux than any closed source system

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Yeah, that's because there's an entire cottage industry of people scraping old bug reports, and linter errors to create CVEs they can sell to customers worrying about security. It creates a huge number of false positives. E.g. see https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2023/08/26/cve-2020-19909-is-everything-that-is-wrong-with-cves/

I think any measure that is looking at a raw count is going to be meaningless. Particularly, comparing raw counts between open and closed software.