"If your adversary is the Mossad, YOU'RE GONNA DIE AND THERE'S NOTHING THAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT." [1]
Not patching is insane -- you'll let script kiddies in. Patching might not stop the next Stuxnet author, but you'll slow them down _and_ have fewer script kiddies.
A lot of people seem to be focusing on how the band-aid of automatic security updates can be ugly without considering the hemorrhaging that it's actually stemming. Nobody's stepping up with a realistic solution to the problem, which means we're stuck with the band-aids.
Not patching is insane -- you'll let script kiddies in. Patching might not stop the next Stuxnet author, but you'll slow them down _and_ have fewer script kiddies.
A lot of people seem to be focusing on how the band-aid of automatic security updates can be ugly without considering the hemorrhaging that it's actually stemming. Nobody's stepping up with a realistic solution to the problem, which means we're stuck with the band-aids.
[1] https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1401_08-12_mickens.pdf