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weavejester on June 17, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Bitcoin trojan caught in the wild

On the other hand, it's also a powerful incentive to improve computer security.

rick888 on June 17, 2011 [–]

No matter how much you improve it, there will be a never ending supply of end users that won't install the proper updates.

weavejester on June 18, 2011 | [–]

Why give them the choice? You could automatically download and apply the updates in the background, given a sufficiently sophisticated updater. That's basically Google's plan with ChromeOS.

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