Apple is the Leader in Admitting Software Bugs
Apple is the new leader in reports of software holes and insecurities, according to security company Secunia.
To be fair, the Secunia's method tracks the number of publically reported security flaws, leaving Apple's taking the number one spot to be interpreted in different ways.
For one, Apple's reported flaws could mean that the company is more vigilant than others in reporting and fixing bugs in its software. Of course, the flipside to that is that Apple's software has to have those flaws in the first place, otherwise there'd be nothing to report on. Apple's security flaws don't come primarily from its OS X operating system, but rather mostly stem from software like Safari, QuickTime and iTunes.
Apple took the bug list lead over from Oracle, which held the crown for most reports from 2006 to 2009. Microsoft maintained its ranking at third, as it has over the past three years.
Check out the full PDF report here.
(via Ars Technica.)
Quicktime! That brings back some memories. Not good memories, but memories all the same...
*Anyone else remember yelling at the monitor and screaming "Why did you become the default media player, WITHOUT MY PERMISSION, for a file that you CAN'T EVEN F**KING PLAY!!!"?
i think youre holding the graph wrong
Quicktime! That brings back some memories. Not good memories, but memories all the same...
*Anyone else remember yelling at the monitor and screaming "Why did you become the default media player, WITHOUT MY PERMISSION, for a file that you CAN'T EVEN F**KING PLAY!!!"?
http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2010/07/13/lincoln-index/
FLAME ON
For example, the cheat iPhone signal bars. Wait! that one don't was a bug. It was a by-design cheat.
My experience as apply user taughtme that the company excuses away the bugs. Never fix them.
Their solutions is "don't do that".
i think youre holding the graph wrong
Engadget: "Secunia ranks Apple first in software insecurity"
Toms: "Apple is the Leader in Admitting Software Bugs"
I would have thought that Engadget was more pro-Apple than Toms, I guess not.
I think apple stopped supplying both with freebie apple products for the time being and articles like these are posted out of spite until the freebies start shipping to them again.
But that's just me.
Could be color blind, no?
They do just work, but they never said it would work consistently, reliably, correctly or securely.
To make this in any way, shape or form "pro-apple" like you're trying to spin it, it would have to show a percentage of total bugs fixed at the bare minimum, or better, percentage of bugs fixed vs the total number filed.
Maybe that information was included in the report, but your article provides none of that supporting information. You say yourself in the article "Secunia's method tracks the number of publically reported security flaws" which doesn't even indicate apple admitted to them.