Privacy Tool Spotlight: Jellyfin 0 ▲ Incognito Cat 1 hour ago · 7 min read1361 words · Tech · hide · 0 comments Twenty years ago, one of our members learned a hard lesson about software updates. It was a cool fall afternoon in the corporate headquarters. They sat in an open cubicle area arranged in a U-shape. From their central seat, they could see every monitor around them. Suddenly the computers started going haywire and dropping offline one after another. It was malware spreading rapidly from machine to machine. They yanked the network cable, shut down their PC, and watched as the company sent everyone home early as they dealt with the outbreak. The next morning they discovered it was a known attack that had already been patched the year before. Why hadn't the company applied the fix? They insisted on testing every patch against every possible system configuration before rolling it out. The whole organization waited on the slowest, most complex setups instead of protecting the majority first. Many companies have since adopted smarter update strategies that stop known exploits much faster,… No comments yet. Log in to reply on the Fediverse. Comments will appear here.