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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