At 07:55 AM 8/16/02 , Skolnik, Ed wrote:

A rule of thumb against fear of attack is whenever there is a security
leak, there is bound to be a fix for it, one just needs to stay alert and
patch your systems whenever there is a security leak.

I'm sorry, but I cannot agree with the above.

For every security patch made available by your O/S vendor, there were one
or more breaches in the field reported to the vendor.  That's how they
discover a patch is needed.

And, you =don't= want to be that pioneer.


        -crl
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