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[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, Feb 16, 2006, Chad McWilliams wrote:
>
>> While I can respect and understand your department being 
>> strapped, all I can say is, "Security updates are part of the 
>> job."  This applies to anyone in IT.
>> 
>
>While I agree with you, the problem is that whether it is a part of the job
>or not becomes moot when you can't keep up with the updates.  Unfortunately,
>it doesn't rate as a high priority with TPTB.
>
>Also, while I am not crazy about auto-installing MS updates, it does provide
>us the ability to keep our machines updated quicklier than what we could
>manually do ourselves.  It's a necessary evil in a place our size that don't
>believe in hiring a proper size IT staff.

You wouldn't need that large an IT staff if you weren't running
the Microsoft virus, Windows.  They're not constantly playing
whack-a-mole trying to keep up with the security patches, patches
which never seem to fix the problems, and often have unintended
consequences.

Many of our customers are migrating from Windows to Mac OS X, for
which there have been fewer security advisories from CERT in the
five year's since we started using them than Windows has in a
typical month.

I had in interesting e-mail exchange with Lee Gomes of the Wall
Street Journal in August 1991, about the time XP was releaseed.
Lee maintained that Microsoft's security problems would go away
with XP.  Two years later, I replied to his last e-mail, leaving
his original message intact (top posting as it were :-), saying
only ``it's really amazing how the Microsoft security problems
have been fixed isn't it''.  He never replied to that message.

Bill
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