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Re: Yahoo Pager auto-update
From: chris () CYBERNET CO NZ (Chris Wedgwood)
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 1998 10:17:06 +1200
On Wed, Aug 05, 1998 at 04:51:25PM -0700, Sergiy Zhuk wrote:
On Wed, 5 Aug 1998, Ralf Rudolph wrote:btw: The yahoo pager is only one example: Many software vendors offer online upgrades. It just sounds like a bad idea to me to allow thisyes, Symantec, for example...
Actually, form the point of view of having to look after thousands of lusers with a combined IQ on 9, automatic upgrades are incredibly attractive. I would estimate that fewer than 50% of modern 'net users are incapable of saving a file to the desktop and then executing it, without considerably hand holding - let alone trying to verify it is indeed the correct file. If downloaded updates can be verifying using a key/certificate that originally came with the ship physical media, then for many non-technical people this is a safer and superior solution that manually downloading and installing updates for the simple reason that many non-technical people can easily be duped into downloading and installing bogus or trojan software. -cw
Current thread:
- Yahoo Pager auto-update Ralf Rudolph (Aug 05)
- Re: Yahoo Pager auto-update Sergiy Zhuk (Aug 05)
- Re: Yahoo Pager auto-update Chris Wedgwood (Aug 06)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Yahoo Pager auto-update Texan Hawk (Aug 10)
- Source Back Orifice Unix client released Patrick Oonk (Aug 10)
- Re: Yahoo Pager auto-update Sergiy Zhuk (Aug 10)
- Re: Debian Apache Security Update Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav (Aug 10)
- Re: Yahoo Pager auto-update Jay (Aug 10)
- Re: Yahoo Pager auto-update Aleph One (Aug 10)
- Re: Yahoo Pager auto-update Sergiy Zhuk (Aug 05)