On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 15:36:54 -0700, Allen Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Rob Hudson wrote:
> >
> > I always thought it was that more users means a bigger install
> > base means it is more attractive as a target so more viruses
> > and exploits are written to target Linux.
> 
> That was Microshaft's rationalization.  They were just trying
> to draw attention away from the fact that their system was
> an attractive target because it was *so* easy to break into.

so to stuff that into the mathematical model i was trying to develop earlier;
you are saying that exploits/users is not a valid metric and that we
should be focusing
on total Vulnerabilities per Platform, even though there is some (not
much) evidence that the number of users influences the number of
vulnerabilities that are exploited?

Perhaps I should discontinue my unreasonable efforts to be rational.

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