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Yup. If they were delaying update to half of their customers for 24 hours, and in that 24 hours some of their customers got hacked by a zero day, say leading to
by jrochkind1 2y ago
Yup. If they were delaying update to half of their customers for 24 hours, and in that 24 hours some of their customers got hacked by a zero day, say leading to ransomeware, the comment threads would be demanding their head for that!
- sateesh 2y agoEven if it is a staged rollout why would one do it in 24 hour phases ? It can be a hourly (say) staggered rollout too.
- jrochkind1 2y agoSure. And if someone showed up here with a story about how they got attacked and ransomwared enterprise-wide in the however many several hours that they were waiting for their turn to rollout, what do you think HN response would be? Hmm, maybe you could have companies pay more to be in the first rollout group? That'd go over well too.
- sateesh 2y agoTrue, there will be comments blaming CS for not doing faster rollout. But there would be some comments empathizing with CS viewpoint and pointing out the conflicting compromise between velocity, and correctness. Even now I think the comments wouldn't have been unequivocally critical, of CS, if the hosts affected were a variant of windows (say issue was seen on version of windows 10 which was two update behind),there would have been some emphasizing the thorniness of the problem and sympathetic of CS.