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We're probably not the only ones running outdated software (feddit.org)
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Fun fact: The outdated software runs on outdated hardware, too.

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[–] OhNoMoreLemmy@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago

Yeah, that's because there's an entire cottage industry of people scraping old bug reports, and linter errors to create CVEs they can sell to customers worrying about security. It creates a huge number of false positives. E.g. see https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2023/08/26/cve-2020-19909-is-everything-that-is-wrong-with-cves/

I think any measure that is looking at a raw count is going to be meaningless. Particularly, comparing raw counts between open and closed software.