On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 05:53:10AM +0000, Karl O. Pinc wrote: > On 03/15/2007 11:55:44 PM, Kian Mohageri wrote: > > >Security isn't about receiving notifications to your Inbox in a timely > >fashion. It is about being proactive yourself. You should be the one > >taking measures to secure your systems, and you should be the one > >ACTIVELY > >LOOKING for problems. Watching mailing lists isn't enough, and this > >was > >announced very early on the ERRATA page. > > Perhaps my problem is that until this thread it wasn't > clear to me that the errata page was inherently more > reliable than the mailing list. From a technical > perspective I see no reason why either can't be equally > reliable. How am I to know?
There are so many points to refer to regarding security - Errata page, misc mailing list, security-announce, Slashdot. It's easy to get confused. The ergonomy of work is decreased. Decrease the ergonomy of work and your accident rate goes up. That means, more people failing to upgrade their system containing with security problem. CL<
