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Since this comes up whenever there is a Project Zero article, here is a summary I made in summer 2020 on the distribution of the bugs they find/report: Since t
by albntomat0 5y ago
Since this comes up whenever there is a Project Zero article, here is a summary I made in summer 2020 on the distribution of the bugs they find/report:
Since this always comes up, here's an overview I made several weeks ago about where Project Zero focuses their efforts:
All counts are rough numbers. Project zero posts:
Google: 24
Apple: 28
Microsoft: 36
I was curious, so I poked around the project zero bug tracker to try to find ground truth about their bug reporting: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/list https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/list For all issues, including closed:
product=Android returns 81 results
product=iOS returns 58
vendor=Apple returns 380
vendor=Google returns 145 (bugs in Samsung's Android kernel,etc. are tracked separately)
vendor=Linux return 54
To be fair, a huge number of things make this not an even comparison, including the underlying bug rate, different products and downstream Android vendors being tracked separately. Also, # bugs found != which ones they choose to write about.
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- gausswho 5y agoI'm not clear. What do these varying counts imply to you?
- nova22033 5y agoBecause someone will invariably accuse project zero of being hostile to google's competitors.
- sangnoir 5y ago> I made several weeks ago about where Project Zero focuses their efforts Are you sure the numbers track where they put effort? I can think of a couple of confounding factors (including P0 methodologies, and number of low-hanging[1] bugs in target products) 1. Relatively speaking
- albntomat0 5y agoI absolutely agree that there are numerous reasons why the numbers are not equal. My sole reason for posting is the "P0 is a hit squad against Apple/Mozzilla/Microsoft" comments that come up whenever their blog posts end up on HN.