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

From: Paul Schmehl (pauls_at_utdallas.edu)
Date: 09/03/03

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To: Stefano Zanero <stefano.zanero@ieee.org>, BugTraq <BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM>

    --On Sunday, August 31, 2003 09:01:49 PM +0200 Stefano Zanero
    <stefano.zanero@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@utdallas.edu)
    Adjunct Information Security Officer
    The University of Texas at Dallas
    AVIEN Founding Member
    http://www.utdallas.edu

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