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The potential dangers of Microsoft's secret patches
- rbanffy 17y agoIt's interesting how one has to take on good faith the description of a patch provided by a closed-source software provider. What if Oracle, SAP, Microsoft, IBM release a patch with a misleading description that induces a costly error? Are they liable for any damage a wrong patch description causes? If they mislabel a patch that takes down your servers for a couple hours (say, one that changes the underlying file format of some big and important tree) as extremely critical, causing undue downtime during peak hours, are they liable for that?