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It's getting to be that time of year again, when everyone starts looking for ways to do something with all of the data that they've accumulated during the last 12 months. That means reports and top tens and lists and rankings and controversy. And, inevitably, it also means more examples of why using bug counts as a measure of an application's security isn't of much use.
Once or twice each year, some security company trots out a “study” that counts the number of vulnerabilities that were found and fixed in widely used software products over a given period and then pronounces the worst offenders in a Top 10 list that is supposed to tell us something useful about the relative security of these programs. And nearly without fail, the security press parrots this information as if it were newsworthy.
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