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Re: Windows Update: A single point of failure for the world's economy?
From: Stefano Zanero (stefano.zanero
ieee.org)
Date: Sun Aug 31 2003 - 14:01:49 CDT
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> I know of no patch which caused all systems to shutdown, or refuse to
reboot.
Ahem, Russ, this is something of a bold claim, unless you stress the ALL :)
There have been some deeply troubling patches in the past, I hope you're not
trying to dismiss that.
And about mis-signatures, may I remind you of the fact that a Microsoft
certificate was wrongly released and signed by Verisign a number of months
ago ?
Enabling a world-wide auto-update feature does indeed seem much of a
security risk to me.
Regards,
Stefano
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