Re: Red Hat Network updates

From: Seth Arnold (sarnold@wirex.com)
Date: 02/28/03

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From: Seth Arnold <sarnold@wirex.com>
To: focus-linux@securityfocus.com

    On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 12:38:16PM -0600, Steve Bremer wrote:
    > However, for a security critical hosts (and maybe others), I
    > would recommend against having your machine automatically apply
    > updates.

    Research we've conducted would confirm this; see our refereed USENIX
    paper on the subject:

    http://wirex.com/~crispin/time-to-patch-usenix-lisa02.ps.gz
    -or-
    http://www.nxnw.org/~steve/papers/lisa2002-time-to-patch.ps
    pdf also available at:
    http://www.nxnw.org/~steve/papers/lisa2002-time-to-patch.pdf

    Cheers :) 

    -- 
"In God we trust, all others we monitor."
 -- NSA, Intercept Operators's motto, 1970

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