RE: Nematodes: The Making of 'Beneficial' Network Worms

["Aditya Deshmukh" <aditya.deshmukh () online gateway strangled net>]

> > And automatic worms are going to be any less likely to cause
> > collateral damage or get out of hand?
>
> No, it's a tricky subject.  But I think too many people are ready to
> dismiss them as too dangerous, even though they consider
> vendor-initiated security updates as perfectly acceptable.  IMHO, the
> trade-offs are similar.

Vendor initiated patches are never put automatically put on production
Servers without testing them out. Anything automatic is acceptable iff
It does not break anything. :)

- Have a nice day 


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