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Re: Windows Update: A single point of failure for the world's economy?
From: "Stefano Zanero" <stefano.zanero () ieee org>
Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 21:01:49 +0200
I know of no patch which caused all systems to shutdown, or refuse to
reboot. Ahem, Russ, this is something of a bold claim, unless you stress the ALL :) There have been some deeply troubling patches in the past, I hope you're not trying to dismiss that. And about mis-signatures, may I remind you of the fact that a Microsoft certificate was wrongly released and signed by Verisign a number of months ago ? Enabling a world-wide auto-update feature does indeed seem much of a security risk to me. Regards, Stefano
Current thread:
- Re: Windows Update: A single point of failure for the world's economy? Stefano Zanero (Sep 02)
- Re: Windows Update: A single point of failure for the world's economy? Paul Schmehl (Sep 03)
- Re: Windows Update: A single point of failure for the world's economy? Kurt Seifried (Sep 04)
- Re: Windows Update: A single point of failure for the world's economy? Jeremy C. Reed (Sep 04)
- Re: Windows Update: A single point of failure for the world's economy? Stefano Zanero (Sep 04)
- Re: Windows Update: A single point of failure for the world's economy? Barry Fitzgerald (Sep 04)
- Re: Windows Update: A single point of failure for the world's economy? Lawrence MacIntyre (Sep 03)
- Re: Windows Update: A single point of failure for the world's economy? Andrew Gideon (Sep 03)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Windows Update: A single point of failure for the world's economy? Aaron Cheek (Sep 04)
- RE: Windows Update: A single point of failure for the world's economy? Schmehl, Paul L (Sep 04)
- RE: Windows Update: A single point of failure for the world's economy? Schmehl, Paul L (Sep 04)
- Re: Windows Update: A single point of failure for the world's economy? Paul Schmehl (Sep 03)