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by endymi0n 1693 days ago
Having two servers with an unpatched CVE 10/10 vuln will get both pwned in short to no time.

Or just one, exposing your data in a ransom attack.

Dependency and update management is hard. Welcome to IT.

From my experience, extreme viewpoints and religions are convenient in the way they have answers to all hard questions in life that are simple, clear and wrong.

If you like simple and correct answers, you're usually better off choosing simple questions instead.

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Unpatched? Not necessarily.

Unpatched and unmitigated? Yes.

Taking the time to build “defense in depth” into the architecture has saved my ass on many occasions.

dear raul, did you read the article? 'Here's a fair warning: this article is reductio ad absurdum, therefore you shouldn't take it as gospel. '