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RE: Windows Update: A single point of failure for the world's economy? Aug 19 2003 06:01PM
Russ (Russ Cooper rc on ca) (1 replies)
Re: Windows Update: A single point of failure for the world's economy? Aug 31 2003 07:01PM
Stefano Zanero (stefano zanero ieee org) (3 replies)
Re: Windows Update: A single point of failure for the world's economy? Sep 03 2003 03:56PM
Paul Schmehl (pauls utdallas edu) (4 replies)
Re: Windows Update: A single point of failure for the world's economy? Sep 04 2003 02:57PM
Barry Fitzgerald (bkfsec sdf lonestar org)
Re: Windows Update: A single point of failure for the world's economy? Sep 04 2003 08:45AM
Stefano Zanero (stefano zanero ieee org)
Re: Windows Update: A single point of failure for the world's economy? Sep 03 2003 10:11PM
Jeremy C. Reed (reed reedmedia net)
Re: Windows Update: A single point of failure for the world's economy? Sep 03 2003 10:02PM
Kurt Seifried (bt seifried org)
Re: Windows Update: A single point of failure for the world's economy? Sep 03 2003 03:12PM
Andrew Gideon (jk28j381jdl30 gideon org)
Stefano Zanero wrote:

> Enabling a world-wide auto-update feature does indeed seem much of a
> security risk to me.

There was an interesting article in the Washington Post recently:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A34978-2003Aug23?language=print
er

It included the text:

The chance of a patch wrecking Windows is dwarfed by the
odds that an unpatched PC will get hit. And for those
saying they don't trust Microsoft to fix their systems,
I have one question: If you don't trust this company,
why did you give it your money?

I like that last question, even if (or perhaps "especially since" {8^) I
bring it to a different conclusion than others may.

- Andrew

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Re: Windows Update: A single point of failure for the world'seconomy? Sep 03 2003 12:16PM
Lawrence MacIntyre (lpz ornl gov)


 

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