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I'd like to see "% days vulnerable to publicly-known vulnerabilities" as a smartphone statistic

I'd like to see "% days vulnerable to publicly-known vulnerabilities" as a smartphone statistic

Posted Jan 21, 2016 11:42 UTC (Thu) by jospoortvliet (guest, #33164)
In reply to: I'd like to see "% days vulnerable to publicly-known vulnerabilities" as a smartphone statistic by PaXTeam
Parent article: Dutch consumer group sues Samsung over Android updates (OSNews)

As was pointed out, the metric is not meant to make phones more secure. Just to show how quickly vendors react to known security issues - one aspect of security, among many. I think it is a great idea.


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I'd like to see "% days vulnerable to publicly-known vulnerabilities" as a smartphone statistic

Posted Jan 21, 2016 11:50 UTC (Thu) by PaXTeam (guest, #24616) [Link]

compare your

> As was pointed out, the metric is not meant to make phones more secure.

with Wol's

> If X is greater than Y, then your phone is secure at least some of the time.

clearly there's disagreement already on what this metric is supposed to mean.


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