Re: Large ISP response to Code Red?

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

On Mon, 30 Jul 2001 17:54:43 PDT, Seth Arnold <sarnold () wirex com>  said:
> [1] they put an awful lot of effort into copyprotection .. how about
> 'forced upgrade protection', that disables internet connections when
> computers are unpatched for 14 days after release of a patch? Or how
> about machines that automatically apply patches? Or email administrators
> every time a patch is released? 

That's called 'The Evil of UCITA', and will certainly result in lawsuits filed
at 9:01AM the first business day after a software vendor mistakenly disables
a software package remotely and hoses somebody's business.

Hint - I have a machine at home that's not ON the net very often (or at
least not visibly).  What should happen the first time it reconnects and
finds that there's a 25M patchfile that's 17 days old?  Should it then
try to download it at the 5KB/sec my modem line achieves?  What happens if
I lose my connection during this multi-hour download, and what happens
to whatever I'm *TRYING* to do while this download is in progress?

Let's not go there, OK? ;)

-- 
                                Valdis Kletnieks
                                Operating Systems Analyst
                                Virginia Tech

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