Chicken and Egg

[Bruce Bostwick]

There's a lot to be said for platforms that don't allow people to  
execute foreign code on them without your permission.  (Especially if  
they prompt you for permission without being so intrusive about it  
that you have to turn the prompting off to avoid the constant  
interruptions.)  There's also a lot to be said for platforms that  
don't make it easy for attackers to hide their executable files and  
running processes from the user.

I'm just saying .. :)

On Jul 14, 2008, at 8:17 PM, William T Goodall wrote:

> On 14 Jul 2008, at 22:58, Lance A. Brown wrote:
>
>> William T Goodall said the following on 7/14/2008 2:53 PM:
>>
>>> So how do you download the patches if you can't put an unpatched
>>> Windows computer on the internet?
>>
>> You don't hook it directly to the Internet.  If you are on a  
>> broadband
>> connection, get a router or wireless access point with an integrated
>> switch and connect your cable or dsl modem to the router or access
>> point, then plug your new windows computer into that.  This lets the
>> router take all the scans and intrusion attempts and as long as you
>> are
>> careful where you browse to, you can download the security updates
>> without compromising your machine.
>
> The router of course is running an embedded version of Linux :-)
>
> Without patches Maru

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