[94815] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Every incident is an opportunity (was Re: Hackers hit key
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Pooser)
Sun Feb 11 11:50:28 2007
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 10:49:30 -0600
From: Dave Pooser <dave.nanog@alfordmedia.com>
To: nanog <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20070211162922.39E27766072@berkshire.machshav.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> He was both right and wrong -- patches do break a lot of stuff. He was
> facing two problems: the probability of being off the air because of an
> attack versus the probability of being off the air because of bad
> interactions between patches and applications. Which is a bigger risk?
That's an argument for an organizational test environment and testing
patches before deployment, no? Not an argument against patching. That said,
I would LOVE to see MS ship a monthly/quarterly unified updater that's a
one-step way to bring fresh systems up to date without slipstreaming the
install CD. Then press a zillion of 'em and put them everywhere you can find
an AOL CD, for all those folks on dial-up who see a 200MB download and curl
up in the fetal position and whimper.
> It's not an easy question to answer. One scenario that scares me is
> what happens if the April Patch Tuesday takes out, say, TurboTax, just
> as Americans are getting ready to file their tax returns.
<cynic mode>
No need to worry about that until MS TaxForm starts shipping.
</cynic mode>
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Dave Pooser, ACSA
Manager of Information Services
Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com
