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Message-ID: <20030831203826.GA7464@trusteddebian.org>
From: peter at trusteddebian.org (Peter Busser)
Subject: Bill Gates blames the victim
Hi!
> Of course, it's convenient to ignore such problems and declare that
> regularly applied patches pave the way to secure software. But
> patching is a countermeasure that is merely in vogue right now. It's
> just a question of time when this approach will break in a very
> obvious manner (that cannot be blamed on sloppy system administration
> easily), and we have to try something different.
Well, patching addresses the symptoms, it doesn't cure the disease.
And having installed the latest patches doesn't mean you're safe either:
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=20030525190037%2470c6%40gated-at.bofh.it
Groetjes,
Peter Busser
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