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Re: Every incident is an opportunity (was Re: Hackers hit key Internet traffic computers)
From: Dave Pooser <dave.nanog () alfordmedia com>
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 10:49:30 -0600
He was both right and wrong -- patches do break a lot of stuff. He was facing two problems: the probability of being off the air because of an attack versus the probability of being off the air because of bad interactions between patches and applications. Which is a bigger risk?
That's an argument for an organizational test environment and testing patches before deployment, no? Not an argument against patching. That said, I would LOVE to see MS ship a monthly/quarterly unified updater that's a one-step way to bring fresh systems up to date without slipstreaming the install CD. Then press a zillion of 'em and put them everywhere you can find an AOL CD, for all those folks on dial-up who see a 200MB download and curl up in the fetal position and whimper.
It's not an easy question to answer. One scenario that scares me is what happens if the April Patch Tuesday takes out, say, TurboTax, just as Americans are getting ready to file their tax returns.
<cynic mode> No need to worry about that until MS TaxForm starts shipping. </cynic mode> -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com
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- RE: Every incident is an opportunity (was Re: Hackers hit key Internet traffic computers), (continued)
- RE: Every incident is an opportunity (was Re: Hackers hit key Internet traffic computers) Stasiniewicz, Adam (Feb 10)
- Re: Every incident is an opportunity (was Re: Hackers hit key Internet traffic computers) Alexander Harrowell (Feb 11)
- Re: Every incident is an opportunity (was Re: Hackers hit key Internet traffic computers) Adrian Chadd (Feb 11)
- Re: Every incident is an opportunity (was Re: Hackers hit key Internet traffic computers) Rich Kulawiec (Feb 12)
- RE: Every incident is an opportunity (was Re: Hackers hit key Internet traffic computers) Sean Donelan (Feb 11)
- RE: Every incident is an opportunity (was Re: Hackers hit key Internet traffic computers) Gadi Evron (Feb 11)
- Re: Every incident is an opportunity (was Re: Hackers hit key Internet Paul Vixie (Feb 11)
- Re: Every incident is an opportunity (was Re: Hackers hit key Internet Steve Sobol (Feb 11)
- Re: Every incident is an opportunity (was Re: Hackers hit key Internet Paul Vixie (Feb 11)
- RE: Every incident is an opportunity (was Re: Hackers hit key Internet traffic computers) Stasiniewicz, Adam (Feb 10)
- Re: Every incident is an opportunity (was Re: Hackers hit key Internet traffic computers) Steven M. Bellovin (Feb 11)
- Re: Every incident is an opportunity (was Re: Hackers hit key Internet traffic computers) Dave Pooser (Feb 11)
- Re: Every incident is an opportunity (was Re: Hackers hit key Internet traffic computers) Steven M. Bellovin (Feb 11)
- RE: Every incident is an opportunity (was Re: Hackers hit key Internet traffic computers) Stasiniewicz, Adam (Feb 11)
- Re: Every incident is an opportunity (was Re: Hackers hit key Internet traffic computers) Sean Donelan (Feb 11)
- Re: Every incident is an opportunity (was Re: Hackers hit key Internet traffic computers) Gadi Evron (Feb 12)
- Re: Every incident is an opportunity (was Re: Hackers hit key Internet traffic computers) Stephane Bortzmeyer (Feb 12)
- Re: Every incident is an opportunity (was Re: Hackers hit key Internet traffic computers) Gadi Evron (Feb 12)
- Re: Every incident is an opportunity (was Re: Hackers hit key Internet traffic computers) Stephane Bortzmeyer (Feb 12)
- Re: Every incident is an opportunity (was Re: Hackers hit key Internet traffic computers) Alexander Harrowell (Feb 12)
- Re: Every incident is an opportunity (was Re: Hackers hit key Internet traffic computers) Stephane Bortzmeyer (Feb 12)