From: Mike N. 

On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 22:41:19 -0500, "Geo."  wrote:

>lets assume that a root level exploit is discovered every 2 months and that
>it takes 6 months to get a patch. That means that at any particular moment
>in time Microsoft knows of 4 back doors to every windows computer on the
>planet.

   The bad guys may have even more back doors.  We don't know if Microsoft
has bad intentions and snoops on your systems.   The bad guys definitely
are in there poking around.   They had a direct avenue to all your servers
via HTTPS all this time.

   Would you feel better if they rushed out the patch in 14 days with
insufficient regression testing and you scrambled to do windows update and
found that it trashed at least 2 servers into not booting?   Then you'd not
even have a patch to apply.

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