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"Don't worry too much about patching your system; in general, the risk of the executable code is worse than the risk of not having your patches up to date." No
by keyme 13y ago
"Don't worry too much about patching your system; in general, the risk of the executable code is worse than the risk of not having your patches up to date."
Not good advice.
If you plan to open anything other than text files on the machine, un-patched software is almost as big a risk as transferring executables. The only difference is that it seems less dangerous to you.
- tptacek 13y agoI came here to say the exact same thing. The problem with complicated file formats isn't that they contain "macros"; it's that the code that parses and interprets those files is prone to memory corruption.