New study says Linux is the MOST VULNERABLE Operating System?!?

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• Yes, of COURSE an operating system that you can READ ITS CODE is MORE VULNERABLE, than a company which HIDES ITS CODE and is KNOWN to SPY ON PEOPLE, and PURPOSEFULLY SLOW DOWN YOUR PC SO YOULL BUY FASTER HARDWARE, aka WINDOWS!!!!

  Yeah, right, I bet Bill Gates didnt pay these guys a penny /s (sarcasm)

• Oh god, so many normies doing these articles

• The amount of times my pc has gotten pwned on Windows = too many to count. On years of Linux so far 0 (knock on wood).

• I definitely want this most vulnerable operating system linux that google and many servers run on instead of windows!
  especially since the source code is free, and because Linux and all open source programs are free!
  and be better!
  libre office, Blender, vlc, gimp, notepadqq, krita, OBS, kdenlive, Mixxx etc. 😀😃😁and why does Windows also use a new Linux kernel because it is so unstable and vulnerable?

• Its just to get people to not leave windows , just like the cnn of tec news

• What are they going on about the company is small and young

• If you believe this LINUX vulnerability missive I have some land in Florida I can sell ya REAL cheap.

• Yea, and what's their methodology too. They don't explain that at all, and should. Also, they don't consider even (like already mentioned below) how any vulnerabilities are found and get reported quickly and fixed ASAP. Far quicker than proprietary OSes.

• Thats because Microsoft is paying them millions of dollars to scare the average person from switching to Linux from Windows.
  Its a scare tactic method.

• I am using Slackware 15.0.Slackware is the oldest Linux maintained since 1992 and dosen't have dependcies (by option). Especially virus is way lower in viruses.

• You did not mention three very important things:
  1) Linux users as a group tend to be on average more tech-savvy than other operating systems users, therefore more likely to find and report vulnerabilities
  2) I's way easier to identify vulnerability in an open source code
  3) Linux and Linux-based OS developers regularly release preview and testing versions for the very purpose of getting the bugs and vulnerabilities reported by users. Unlike proprietary sw companies, who do all the testing in-house and only release more or less finished products.

• A new study by Microsoft?

• TLDR:
  Reported Vulnerability == Insecurity
  But
  Insecurity != Reported Vulnerability

• Even for a dunce like me, the article I read on these graphs made no sense. Thank you for explaining in more depth!

• Microsoft sez – Linux sux! Ur a nerd heheh. Linux has more vulnerability. Yeah, says the experts (at Microsoft).

• when software is open source, you know its vulnerabilities
  when software is proprietary, you only know what you're allowed to know
  which is why apple shills always talk about ios and macos having no viruses
  it's because we don't have access to the source code to find vulns and everyone's surprised by a 0day.

• Were can I get the 'linux' os

• Yeah,
  I still remember when a microsoft representative answered yes when asked if microsoft purposely let back doors for NSA

• Microsoft has infiltrateed em to spread disinformation

• Linux is the most secure operating system series because there are almost no malware for it! That's because malware programmers target the biggest computer groups such as Windows and MacOS. Furthermore,most linux users are more advanced users than Windows and MacOS users and most of them know how to be kept safe without antiviruses.

• I do not like that young and very unstable software company "Linux"! It's probably extremely insecure!

• So, it's like calculating the total number of edits in Wikipedia and presenting it as how many errors does the "young company" accumulate in their "product".

• lol – so many adobe products which have as many CVEs as Windows (an entire os fully of legacy crap) – how do they cram so many bugs into a pdf reader? I wonder if the sell them as zero-days to our governments as they release them? Yes everyone has our pdf reader… send them this pdf for shell access.

• This right here, this is why you shouldn't skip your statistics class

• The article was written by a bot, this dude is manipulating you as a viewer with this long video, he knew its written by an AI.

• Wdyem linux is vulnerable, linux is a kernel, windows is an OS, what a comparision

• 8:08 Seems Adobe Flash Player is quite safe. LOL!

• Linux is neither safer than windows nor more vulnerable, Linux is just less of a target because of its lack of users. In hind sight with log4j being as big of an issue, and took years to find, it doesn't matter how many eyes are on the code something as are eventually going to fall through the cracks. I imagine if windows and Linux swapped market share Linux would be the most vulnerable while windows would be the most secure(because it simply would not be worth it).

• Fake news be fake newsing. As always.

• Wow the people writing this article really need to redo their statistics course. That is if they didn't have an ulterior motive.

• hit piece in its purest form

• Windows: Closed doors with cracks in the walls and neglectful landlords.

  Linux + GNU/Linux Builds*: Open to the public and full of good samaritans that actively repair and strengthen the foundation up.

  *Apple's MacOS technically applies here, but is so far out and gone the way of the Windows that the only real, concrete parallel is that it runs a Bash terminal environment.

• Quick question. Which system patches vulnerabilities best? You have fixes/patches always; but which system fixed them faster vs more thoroughly? I suspect linux is best but I leave that to you.

• Brought to you by M$

• Microsoft always did dirty things to their competition. As Linux becomes more popular Microsoft will definitely sink to every low to kill it.

• Is this about the meltdown and spectre thing? I'm not really concerned. Also, apparently the patch for that slows down your CPU. How wonderful.
  Just don't run random EXE on your Windows and you'll be fine. Are you logged in as an admin on your Windows? I was always logged in as admin and on a rare occasion, it got infected.
  Linux takes a different approach. They tend to not let you log in as root into the GUI.
  The most important thing is to have a very secure browser. Or just don't use the web.

• You're using a count of vulnerabilities as a measure of how vulnerable the system is. For example, a system that allows a single wide open vulnerability that gives anyone instant access to the entire machine with no effort at all is the most vulnerable by far, but it has only 1 vulnerability.

  I'll need to read how the original article you're dissing is evaluating this.

  I've been a Linux/Unix engineer since the late 80's. It's not a magically gifted bulletproof architecture. It just doesn't have every tom/dick/harry targeting it.

  And if you guys think that "open source" means "safer", you've fallen for the BS. It's all still a camel—a horse designed by committee.

• Linking the source is the ethical thing to do. However, they don't deserve the clicks

• I was alarmed at first when you started listing vulnerabilities. Then the penny dropped, by nature of a vulnerabilities , it as to be identified and fixed. It is the unknown vulnerabilities we need to worry about. So it must figure that the more that is known the less is unknown. So Linux then must be more secure than it’s competitors. So now I can still sleep easy. Lol.

• This kind of study puts a lot of doubt in the other studies made by NIST. It's been a year now and I'm still going back to this. This shouldn't be but it is starting to feel historical in its infamy.

• How linux fans cope with denial:

• The most vulnerable softwares are proprietary softwares controlled by giant Cooperates 😄

• I see it now, I'm never using tails again. It's to vulnerable and unsecured

• It is a bit suspicious that the Linux kernel would have more vulns than Ubuntu, since Ubuntu is using the Linux kernel. I doubt they were able to separate vulnerabilities to distro-specific levels. I do not think that just claiming that Linux is more secure will prove anything, though. I suspect that Linux security is way over-rated, especially when some "evangelists" claim that there is "no need for antivirus in Linux". Such claims are just garbage. The truth is somewhere in the middle.

• That list is definitely misleading

• I went ahead and roughly calculated the number of vulnerabilities per year for each of these products. And Linux was not even close to being on top.

  Debian Linux? 10th Place with 113.59/year.

  Linux Kernel? 12th Place with 81.28/year.

  Ubuntu? 6th Place with 125.44/year.

  Windows 10? 1st Place. 222.2/year.

  When you actually account for how long these products have existed, it makes Windows 10 look horrible, and Linux look amazing.

  (I divided the number of vulnerabilities by 2020 – the product's release year.)

• I use arch btw

• 4:30 wait what?

• IDK why but I'm seven seconds in and you got a new sub

• This article is BS and should have also included average time for getting it fixed and how many of them have been fixed

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