[Gllug] Voluntary work

[Jason Clifford]

On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, Bernard Peek wrote:

> >No.  Perhaps you don't keep up with the MS bugfixes and "security patches" -
> >there are often several issued in a day as new vulnerabilities are found.
> 
> Yes. I'm on Microsoft's security alert mailing list, and some other 
> bug-tracking lists. The number of security alerts would definitely be a 
> factor in the decision.

Security *alerts* should not be an issue at all unless they are coming out 
very late from the official channels.

What you need to be concerned about is the delay between the discovery of 
a security bug and the release of a patch that fixes it - without fubaring 
anything else you depend upon.

Jason Clifford
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