full-disclosure - Open Letter on the Interpretation of "Vulnerability Statistics"

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Message-ID: <20060106193446.GE14895@sivokote.iziade.m$>
Date: Fri Jan  6 19:35:04 2006
From: guninski at guninski.com (Georgi Guninski)
Subject: Open Letter on the Interpretation of
	"Vulnerability Statistics"

On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 02:12:32AM -0500, Steven M. Christey wrote:
> 
> Open Letter on the Interpretation of "Vulnerability Statistics"
> ---------------------------------------------------------------

>Refined Vulnerability Information (RVI)

hahaha, buzz word?

>that is vulnerability databases (including CVE/NVD)

hahaha:
http://cve.mitre.org/about/
A Dictionary, NOT a Database
(note the CAPS)
so which way is it "NOT" or "A database"?

rumors says the bsa/*aa may be after you for copyright infringment and
illegal reverse engineering. irresponsible of you, bad dog!

> RVI sources collect unstructured vulnerability information from Raw
> Sources. 

read: parasites cut and paste from people who can do things.

> - LACK OF COMPLETE CROSS-REFERENCING BETWEEN RVI SOURCES.

read: coley does not like it that there is no officially recognized 
usa funded database (NOT a dictionary) to rule em all and manipulate
statistics.

-- 
where do you want bill gates to go today?