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The great unwashed has been afforded an opportunity to comment on a new scheme for classifying the severity of infosec vulnerabilities issued by the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) is a pain-assessment index that offers a one-to-ten scale to describe …

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    "Scores range up to 10 with severities high graded 7 to 10, medium as 4 to 6.9, and low as 0 to 3.9."

    So a 10 point scale or 100 point with the decimal is reduced to a three point one. What's the point of that?

    Seems a bit confused - try again.

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    1. Anonymous Bullard
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      Coat

      Well, it provides extra accuracy of course!

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    2. Robert Helpmann??
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      Confused

      So a 10 point scale or 100 point with the decimal is reduced to a three point one. What's the point of that?

      The decimal! By its nature, the decimal is the point.

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