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Rate of bugs and rate of security holes are mostly uncorrelated

Rate of bugs and rate of security holes are mostly uncorrelated

Posted Mar 8, 2006 5:52 UTC (Wed) by djm (subscriber, #11651)
In reply to: Rate of bugs and rate of security holes are mostly uncorrelated by Ross
Parent article: 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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