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Security Patches by Modem? Forget it!
Scott Granneman, 2004-03-24

Let's face it - there is no way for dial-up users on any major operating system to keep their computers up-to-date and patched. OK, maybe "no way" is an exaggeration. How about, "a difficult, burdensome, time-consuming, very prone to failure way?"

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CVSUP works via modem 2004-03-24
Anonymous
For a time, I updated my parents' FreeBSD PC via CVSUP over a 56k dial-up.
It was very slow, but it's doable IMO.
I needed no virus-sigs, at least ;-)
But for downloading KDE-updates etc, I still burned CDs - until I subscribed them to DSL, too, and installed a WLAN-router.

I could probably li...

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