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The perils of shouting “fire” in a crowd of PC patchers

Posted on January 30, 2020 at 11:26 CST by woody • Comment in the Forums

It happens over and over again. Microsoft releases a patch and the world panics. Dire predictions of doom stampede Windows customers into installing patches, like, yesterday. Then — poof! — the threat disappears. The news cycle changes and nobody hears about the big, bad security hole. Who gets hurt when the industry cries “Wolf!”?

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