If you think Linux is on their first or second, I'm not sure how or what you're counting.

> I'm not sure how or what you're counting.

The recent two. FailCopy and DirtyFrag and FreeBSD with Execve.

2 - Linux 1 - FreeBSD.

Of course, all OS have had past-time exploits. Three now have made the news.

Your question was "how many high profile privilege escalations Windows has had recently" then? I can't think of any, 0?

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