Re: Expired certificate

[Leif Nixon <nixon () nsc liu se>]

"Elazar Broad" <elazar () hushmail com> writes:

> <snip>
> Can't you? The world is full of unpatched systems. You can even find
> systems where patches are not installed because it is running a
> piece of
> mission critical software and they would lose support if they
> installed
> any patches (I am not making this up).
> </snip>
>
> Spot on. I know of one large accounting/ERP system(which shall
> remain nameless, though I am sure there are those out there who
> have come across it) that checked the SQL version, including the
> revision number at runtime, which made patching SQL impossible.

Or Gaussian:

  http://gaussian.com/g09_plat.htm

  "The Linux RedHat and SuSE versions specified for IA32, IA64 and
  EM64T/Operton systems refer only to the unmodified, unpatched original
  media/ISO image distributions as released by the vendor."

-- 
                               / Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing
Leif Nixon - Security officer <  National Supercomputer Centre
                               \ Nordic Data Grid Facility

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