From: Mike N. 

On Sun, 6 May 2007 23:11:04 -0400, "Geo."  wrote:

>No OS that comes on physical media is secure out of the box. In the time it
>takes to release it on media it's already got patches.
>
>It would be nice if you could count on downloads being the lastest patch
>level but even there I rarely see it except in the simplest of programs.

   On a mass produced device, there would be several weeks minimum between
manufacturing to purchase.   I don't know the details of the test, but the
real shame is that it apparently  does not enable the firewall by default,
which would have protected it, even at an old patch level.

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