>>> On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 11:57 AM, in message
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "McKown,
John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 
> Laugh? Cry? Throw Up?
> 
> http://www.internetnews.com/security/article.php/3667201

It's a little hard to understand the decision criteria used, as reported by the 
article.  Microsoft had 12 high severity problems (out of 39 reported fixed), 
Red Hat had 2 high severity problems out of 208 reported fixed, and Mac OS X 
had 1 high severity problem out of 43 reported fixed.  Certainly "days until 
fixed" is important, but the article doesn't say how that was measured, so who 
knows if that's accurate/reasonable or not?

Regardless of what or how Symantec was measuring, I do give Microsoft credit 
for trying to improve their security and response to security problems.  I just 
think they still have a long way to go.


Mark Post

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