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Re: Windows Update: A single point of failure for the world's economy?

From: Paul Schmehl (paulsutdallas.edu)
Date: Wed Sep 03 2003 - 10:56:29 CDT


--On Sunday, August 31, 2003 09:01:49 PM +0200 Stefano Zanero
<stefano.zaneroieee.org> wrote:
>
> Enabling a world-wide auto-update feature does indeed seem much of a
> security risk to me.
>
More of a risk than up2date for RedHat or emerge -u system for Gentoo? Or
cvsup for *BSD?

Paul Schmehl (paulsutdallas.edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu