Re: Microsoft announce most secure OS on the planet

[security curmudgeon <jericho () attrition org>]

: >> For the sake of common sense, what is the distribution of IE8? 
: 
: Are you saying that more popular products have more vulnerabilities? I 
: don't understand the question? And IE8 was in widespread beta since over 
: a year ago.

Dodge .. dodge .. evade!

"Popular" products have more published vulnerabilities, that would be 
pretty easy to argue. May have to qualify "popular" to who though (the 
researchers/blackhats, or the general public which makes them appealing 
targets to the bad guys, etc).

"widespread beta" for a year isn't the same as it being the default 
browser for every Windows user for a year. 

It was less a question, more a statement, that it's the same cycle: MS 
says 'most secure' before product is widely deployed and well researched, 
vulnerabilities are found, X months later it's just another bug ridden 
product and everyone seems to have forgotten the sales-y claims made 
previously.
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