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| poor update policies which ones? forcing them or not forcing them?
by simplicitea 9y ago
| poor update policies
which ones? forcing them or not forcing them?
- ChuckMcM 9y agoIn the wannacry event the policy of not applying updates was contributory to its spread. So 'not forcing them' being the less good choice.
- lkbm 9y agoNeither. 1. Bundling them -- it should be trivial to turn off all non-security updates while still getting all security updates. Counterpoint: There might be no unambiguous distinction between security update or non-security update. 2. Not having them. WannaCry was so bad because Microsoft stopped providing security updates for a system that's still widely used. Counterpoint: It seems odd to insist Microsoft continue to provide updates to a fifteen-year-old system they end-of-lifed three years ago. Should we be able to force them to keep providing updates indefinitely by steadfastly refusing to upgrade?