[Info-vax] Maybe a bit OT, maybe not.. in any case an interesting article

[Paul Sture]

On Thu, 17 May 2012 08:43:50 -0500, Bob Koehler wrote:

> In article <jp0rk3$jlg$1 at dont-email.me>, David Froble
> <davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes:
>> 
>> I rarely re-boot, and I never turn on automatic updates.
> 
>    This is reportedly the most common cause of actual Windows security
>    failures.  The crackers examine the patches to find out where the
>    security hole is, and then attack unpatched systems.
> 
>    I long ago found I can never rely on how Windows does things.  So
>    when I must use Windows, I take what it does as what it does.  And on
>    the very rare occasion that I have to program on Windows I use
>    cygwin and let the good folks who do cygwin keep up the fight with
>    how Windows changes.  The cygwin API is stable.

"The definition of insanity is repeating the same behavior over and over 
and expecting different results."
-- Unknown 

Yet this strategy is sometimes effective with Windows. :-)

-- 
Paul Sture