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Re: darpa to automatically patch flaws

From: Jeffrey Walton <noloader () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 10:27:23 -0400

On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 10:03 AM, J. Oquendo <sil () infiltrated net> wrote:

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3) System would have to EXPLOIT vuln to fix it

Like the worm wars back in the early 2000s? Nachia patching for
Blaster? http://www.sophos.com/en-us/press-office/press-releases/2003/08/va_nachi.aspx

I thought it was kind of the Nachia folks to patch vulnerable
workstations and servers since SysAdmins were doing such a poor job.

Jeff

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