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Re: Windows Update: A single point of failure for the world's economy?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Gideon)
Wed Sep 3 18:14:56 2003
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From: Andrew Gideon <jk28j381jdl30@gideon.org>
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 11:12:53 -0400
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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=printer
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
