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

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Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 10:56:29 -0500
From: Paul Schmehl <pauls@...allas.edu>
To: Stefano Zanero <stefano.zanero@...e.org>,
	BugTraq <BUGTRAQ@...URITYFOCUS.COM>
Subject: Re: Windows Update: A single point of failure for the world's
 economy?


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