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by yellow_postit 694 days ago
How do you propose ensuring critical security updates get deployed then?

Especially if an infected machine can attack others?

Users/IT regularly would never update or deploy patches which has its own consequences. There’s no perfect solution—but rather there to accept the pain.

It’s a lot like herd immunity in vaccines.

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> It’s a lot like herd immunity in vaccines.

Yes. But you don't deploy experimental vaccines simultaneously across the entire population all at once. Inoculating an entire country takes months; the logistics incidentally provide protection against unforeseen immediate-term dangerous side effects. Without that delay, well, every now and then you'd kill half the population with a bad vaccine. The equivalent of what's happening now with CrowdStrike.