Debian Was the Most Vulnerable OS in the Last 20 Years

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Where do the numbers come from?

You hardly can compare the number of tickets in an issue tracker of an open source software (let it alone being a distribution, collecting thousands of packages and reporting straight to upstream developers) with the information spread about closed software.

I remember this clickbait title from a couple of days ago. The comparison is for all packages over Debian's history in the last 20 years versus a specific release version of Windows. Hardly a fair comparison.

This just in, an open source OS has more CVEs over the course of 20 years compared to a closed source OS that is not even 5 years old.

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