Rate of bugs and rate of security holes are mostly uncorrelated
Posted Mar 8, 2006 5:52 UTC (Wed) by
djm (subscriber, #11651)
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Rate of bugs and rate of security holes are mostly uncorrelated by Ross
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Coverity releases first defect survey results
OpenBSD isn't a "distribution", but it has privilege separated Xorg so the vast majority no longer runs as root. Disabling the TCP listener isn't so much of a win as it breaks ssh forwarding of X sessions, and because X11's authentication is pretty good (barring chumps who run "xhost +").
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