<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 12, 2008 3:35 PM, Eric Eisenhart <<a href="mailto:freiheit@gmail.com">freiheit@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br><br>The better application of your paranoia would be to install the<br>updates. Many of them fix security problems that could allow<br>definitely bad people to take control of your computer. Not<br>installing updates because you're paranoid about somebody you've
<br>already trusted and instead letting malicious teenagers all over the<br>world into your computer doesn't seem like a good choice to me. :)<br></blockquote></div><br clear="all">Pretty much this was what I was asking, how the computer knew where to go to get the updates. It seemed like a possible route to fake packages. Thanks.
<br>-- <br>Jack Smith<br><br>English doesn't borrow from other languages -- English follows other languages down dark alleys and takes what it wants.