Wyrdness said:
nanarchy said:
It is a VERY hard thing to grasp. There are very few modern day examples of patches causing wide spread system failures, but there are endless lists of widespread system compromises because of people that decide they don't need to patch or are better off waiting without understanding the consequences. It is like the anti Vaxxers, it is a poor decision for the vast majority of the population.
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It's only hard if you want it to be, even something as simple as 2+2 can be hard for someone who refuses to understand, simple logic is some people want to be safe beforehand to see if new updates don't conflict with their hardware or any software and the past is the reason why.
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yep and that very behaviour is what makes malware spread so easily. malware writers rely on people like yourself that are slow at patching, they don't need to discover new vulnerabilities, they just reverse engineer the patch and they have a way to compromise a large volume of users that thinks they know better and can wait for a few days or a few weeks or what usually happens they never get aorund to doing it at all until something happens. You are far more likely to have issues from not patching than patching.
