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corporate update solution?
Authored by: semios on Jul 08, '02 02:21:58PM

Being able to interpose your own update server could actually be of great benefit both for IT departments and software companies. Imagine a school with some 2,000 computers on campus, they set up their own update server and voila, updating software becomes trivial. I think apple should open it up, so that people could actually subscribe to different update servers (definitely include authentication though). Instead of every application having to implement it's own software update. More security would be required, but this would be nice would it not?



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corporate update solution?
Authored by: nhl00 on Jul 08, '02 02:31:17PM

In my opinion these are two different problems - the first problem (security) I would rate as moderate. If I understand it properly, the exploit requires that you on the same network as the target machine (they go through you, as opposed to you "reaching out and touching someone") So you can root a co-workers machine. Not good, but you could do that just by sitting at their desk...

As for allowing other software to update - it would be awesome if my software update automatically checked for all of my softare. No need to troll version tracker and compare release versions!

just my $0.02 worth
Frank



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corporate update solution?
Authored by: junkie on Jul 08, '02 06:46:42PM

I agree that apple should find a way to open this up to other developers - but it also seems like the security issues should not be underestimated.

One thing I am wondering about this problem is that how do we know that people won't exploit the vulnerability as Apple is sending out the patch for the problem. Seems like a particularly bad security problem to use public pressure to fix.



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