Re: Updater Investigation

[Fyodor <fyodor () insecure org>]

On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 05:32:32PM -0500, Ron wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Jun 2011 17:00:17 -0700 Fyodor <fyodor () insecure org> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 01:45:31PM -0700, Colin L. Rice wrote:
>
> do we want to notify the user of day-to-day updates during
> normal usage? I think there'd be a lot of resistance against nmap
> "phoning home" ever time it's run to check for updates, but perhaps we
> can take a page from Metasploit's metaphorical book and print, "it's
> been 45 days since your last update, to get the latest scripts you
> should run nmap --update now!".

That sounds like a great approach to me.

-Fyodor
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