alt Hacker NewsI am not sure that works - imagine that the next shellshock had been found. Would you want to wait 7 days to update?
We need to either screen everybody or cut of countries like North Korea and Iran from the Internet.
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AgentME • today at 12:01 AM
Shellshock was in 2014 and Log4Shell was 2021. It's far more likely that you're going to get pwned by using a too-recent unreviewed malicious package than to be unknowingly missing a security update that keeps you vulnerable to easy RCEs. And if such a big RCE vuln happens again, you're likely to hear about it and you can whitelist the update.
These vulnerabilities are all caught by scanners and the packages are taken down 2-3 hours after going live. Nothing needs to take 7 days, that's just a recommendation. But maybe all packages should be scanned, which apparently only takes a couple of hours, before going live to users?