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Re: Not Again: Friendly 'Worms' Could Spread Software Fixes
From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 19:56:11 -0500
On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 23:42:20 GMT, Paul Ferguson said:
Microsoft researchers are hoping to use "information epidemics" to distribute software patches more efficiently.
Blarg. ;)
It would appear that bad ideas have a tendency to be recirculated every few years... :-)
"I encourage my competitors to design their networks that way" -- Randy Bush. I saw we *let* Microsoft deploy it, so they can join SCO on the trash heap after they deploy. ;)
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