Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff@mastodon.social
Think it's not worth the time to restart your computer when it tells you to update your software? Think again.
https://sec.eff.org/articles/software-updates
sec.eff.orgSoftware Updates and Why They're Important“Keep your software updated!” is the closest thing we have to security advice that will work for everyone. But the reasoning behind it can be counterintuitive, and even quick updates can intolerably interrupt people’s workflows. Below are several common questions about why it is so important to update one’s software, as well as tips for how to talk about it with people new to digital security.
Updating your software makes you more expensive to hack.
No software is perfect....
Gonna update my computer tonight, using pacman -Syu. I wonder how to do many of the things I did in pacman in apk on #alpine?