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Rich remarks: | Derek Martin wrote: | > Your argument is wrong. | | Tone it down a little, please. I have worked in the industry and have been | familiar with the issues since 1979, and admit full well where my weaknesses | as well as strengths are. I'm not as daft as you're making me out to be. | | Would anyone other than Derek care to comment on this topic? Well, there is the observation that "Keep track of all security alerts and keep your system up to date" is not necessarily a very helpful bit of advice. This is now much more than a 24-hour-a-day job. If you attempt it, you will have no time for anything else, not even eating and sleeping. Well, I suppose you can eat while reading. But unless it's your paying job, or you are independently wealthy, there is really no way you can follow such advice. So, given that the rest of us are doomed to be forever using systems that haven't been properly maintained with respect to security issues, what is a reasonable set of compromises? The idea of keeping backups, installing watchdogs, and being prepared to reinstall seems like a more practical approach for those of us who can't dedicate our lives to securing our machines. (Similarly, if one were to follow all advice from auto makers and mechanics, all our cars would be in the shop full time, and we'd never have time to drive them. This would make us all safer drivers, true, but not many people are going to attempt it. ;-)
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