New use for AOL CDs (was Re: Your customer's ...)

Tue Oct 2 03:55:32 UTC 2001

On Mon, 1 Oct 2001 Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:
> On the flip side, if you can't keep the users from doing stupid things,
> how will you ever secure it?  Yes, his proposals are laughable - but do
> you want to even TRY to secure an infrastructure where Gibson's stuff
> is NOT done?

A dumb suggestion, but why doesn't Microsoft hire AOL to include all its
recommended patches for Windows on the CD's AOL sends to everyone on
the planet?  That way users don't have to wait for hours for all the
patches downloading on their 28k modems.