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To: NaturalScience
sorry, try this one: www.cvedetails.com/top-50-products.php?year=2015
27 posted on 08/19/2016 3:28:28 PM PDT by NaturalScience
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To: NaturalScience; ctdonath2
sorry, try this one: www.cvedetails.com/top-50-products.php?year=2015

Uh, vulnerabilities do not equal EXPLOITS, NaturalScience. They never have and never will. Apple has far fewer EXPLOITED vulnerabilities than any of the others. Click on OS X and follow the link to the next page and you get this graphic showing the history over time:

Total OS X Vulnerabilities, Type, and Exploits — 1999 to Date.

Notice that the total number of exploits over 17 years is just TWELVE (12)! All of the rest of those vulnerabilities were totally innocuous. Many of the vulnerabilities were local, required participation of the local user, or required compound vulnerabilities to ever be exploitable. For these and other reasons it was VERY difficult for them to turn into an exploitable application.

Keep in mind that OS X is an OS that includes multiple products when shipped and the vulnerabilities reported under it include all the vulnerabilities of those products as well. It is UNIX™ and therefore ever vulnerability found for UNIX and Linux usually is cross platform and will affect OS X as well as those other platforms so will also be included in the CVEs reported for Apple's OS X. Apple also ships OS X with many UNIX™ applications such as Python. If there are vulnerabilities in those Apps, they are listed in OS X, as well, because they are part of the distribution. OS X also ships with Safari, Pages, Numbers, Keynote, Maps, Mail, Notes, GarageBand, FaceTime, Calendar, iMessenger, iTunes, etc., all of which have vulnerabilities reported under OS X as well. Windows does not suffer from the same combined CVE reporting requirements.

So, yes, Apple OS X did have 1601 vulnerabilities over the last 17 years, but it had only 12 that wound up in exploitable apps. So much for your claims of real danger. Every one of those 12 turned out to be a Three Day Wonder in the press. . . and the vulnerabilities they took advantage of were closed very quickly by Apple.

33 posted on 08/19/2016 5:09:29 PM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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