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Bugtraq: Re: Windows Update: A single point of failure for the world's economy?

Re: Windows Update: A single point of failure for the world's economy?

From: Paul Schmehl <pauls_at_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_at_ieee.org> wrote:
>
> Enabling a world-wide auto-update feature does indeed seem much of a
> security risk to me.
>
More of a risk than up2date for RedHat or emerge -u system for Gentoo? Or
cvsup for *BSD?

Paul Schmehl (pauls_at_utdallas.edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu
Received on Sep 03 2003

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