posted by dennisn on January 12th, 2009 at 10:31PM
Window$ is really an example of something that is systematically defective--defective by design. You can have all the best intentions in the world, and it will still suck. A large part of the problem, and also what makes Microsoft Microsoft, is it's centralized nature. Which is paradise for systematic exploits.
Not to mention their prioritizing ease-of-use over security, by not encouraging/forcing users to have separate root and user accounts, etc.
So, the idea of the post was not so much that bulk service packs are a bad idea, so much as there is no solution to mega-centralized-binary softwares, except completely replacing them with plausible alternatives (decentralized, open-source, etc).
Not to mention their prioritizing ease-of-use over security, by not encouraging/forcing users to have separate root and user accounts, etc.
So, the idea of the post was not so much that bulk service packs are a bad idea, so much as there is no solution to mega-centralized-binary softwares, except completely replacing them with plausible alternatives (decentralized, open-source, etc).
