I am proud to say that this post is the one thousand and tenth post for StillSecure, after all these years!  I had meant to commemorate the 1000th post but was so busy blogging I missed it.  Over 1000 articles is certainly a body of work to reflect on. I was thinking what were some of my favorites. What were some of my least favorites.  I would be interested in what your thoughts as to best and worst articles were. Anyway as they say in the song, what a long strange trip its been!  My heartfelt thanks to you my readers who encourage me to continue blogging. There is nothing like meeting someone who tells me that they know me from reading my blog. Let me let you in on a little secret though.  As much as I enjoy the interaction with you readers, I love blogging because I it makes me feel good to express myself.  I think all people who blog for a period of time will agree that it takes a certain amount of narcissism to blog. I certainly have not shortage of that.  It is almost like you reading this is the cherry on top of the cake.

Anyway, I hope to keep blogging for a long time to come. I hope you continue to find my content interesting and worthy of your valuable time.  Most of all I hope it continues fulfilling whatever it is that it does for me that makes me like it so much.

Thanks for trucking along with me!

I am proud to say that this post is the one thousand and tenth post for StillSecure, after all these years!  I had meant to commemorate the 1000th post but was so busy blogging I missed it.  Over 1000 articles is certainly a body of work to reflect on. I was thinking what were some of my favorites. What were some of my least favorites.  I would be interested in what your thoughts as to best and worst articles were. Anyway as they say in the song, what a long strange trip its been!  My heartfelt thanks to you my readers who encourage me to continue blogging. There is nothing like meeting someone who tells me that they know me from reading my blog. Let me let you in on a little secret though.  As much as I enjoy the interaction with you readers, I love blogging because I it makes me feel good to express myself.  I think all people who blog for a period of time will agree that it takes a certain amount of narcissism to blog. I certainly have not shortage of that.  It is almost like you reading this is the cherry on top of the cake.

Anyway, I hope to keep blogging for a long time to come. I hope you continue to find my content interesting and worthy of your valuable time.  Most of all I hope it continues fulfilling whatever it is that it does for me that makes me like it so much.

Thanks for trucking along with me!

A Microsoft vulnerability report suggests that Microsoft wasn’t able to fix more Windows flaws than the number of open software flaws fixed by the major open source companies. Red Hat, having forty times less employees than Microsoft, did the best job, by fixing and closing the most security bugs, also closing even minor bugs - where Microsoft didn’t even fix one minor bug in the same period.

Seriously, I loved this post, it made me laugh out loud!  Fixing more security vulnerabilities is apparently a good thing in the world of Red Hat Truth.

Well, for those who actively support that theory, I have some fantastic news for them!  According to my calculations, in July 2007, the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 team fixed their 1000th unique security vulnerability.  Now, 164 of these were Low severity and 479 were Medium severity, but still, that is a ton of work accomplished by that team, especially given that the product only shipped in February of 2005.

To put that in context, (again by my calculations) Microsoft has fixed only 649 security vulnerabilities for all supported products across the company since the year 2000.