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


From: Paul Schmehl <pauls () utdallas edu>
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 10:56:29 -0500

--On Sunday, August 31, 2003 09:01:49 PM +0200 Stefano Zanero <stefano.zanero () ieee 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 (pauls () utdallas edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu


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