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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:
More of a risk than up2date for RedHat or emerge -u system for Gentoo? Or cvsup for *BSD?Enabling a world-wide auto-update feature does indeed seem much of a security risk to me.
Paul Schmehl (pauls () utdallas edu) Adjunct Information Security Officer The University of Texas at Dallas AVIEN Founding Member http://www.utdallas.edu
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)