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    Windows Update for Business (wub wub wub wub) Who employed Claptrap?

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    • ?
      A Former User
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      It's already in the preview.

      It can do peer to peer locally and over the internet. By default it does local and with anyone on the internet.

      My guess is this will be the first feature attacked. Even with local p2p only. If they can spread malware and viruses with it it could be very effective.

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      • scottalanmillerS
        scottalanmiller
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        It's just local WSUS, basically. So the attack surface is probably very similar.

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        • ?
          A Former User
          last edited by A Former User

          Except WSUS is centrally controlled. This is every computer acting as one. Meaning if any computer gets infected it could have a chance to infect others. This is also going to allow p2p application level updates (thought its not working yet.). It's a bit torrent technology they bought from Pando.

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          • scottalanmillerS
            scottalanmiller @A Former User
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            @thecreativeone91 said:

            Except WSUS is centrally controlled. This is every computer acting as one. Meaning if any computer gets infected it could have a chance to infect others. This is also going to allow p2p application level updates (thought its not working yet.). It's a bit torrent technology they bought from Pando.

            That's true. But WSUS had the same risk. Yes, there was only one copy of it, but it was the same basic risk. If you could hack WSUS it would infect everything. Yes this is more copies of WSUS, but the concept remains the same. Risk higher? Yes. Risk high? Only if WSUS was a high risk.

            And I assume you can control the peer to peer nature as well. So that not all peers can push updates.

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            • scottalanmillerS
              scottalanmiller
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              And I think that they made a point of central control existing here too.

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              • JaredBuschJ
                JaredBusch @A Former User
                last edited by

                @thecreativeone91 said:

                Except WSUS is centrally controlled. This is every computer acting as one. Meaning if any computer gets infected it could have a chance to infect others. This is also going to allow p2p application level updates (thought its not working yet.). It's a bit torrent technology they bought from Pando.

                Just because distribution is P2P, that does not mean that there is no central control mechanism.. One does not infer the other.

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                • ?
                  A Former User @scottalanmiller
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                  @scottalanmiller said:

                  And I assume you can control the peer to peer nature as well. So that not all peers can push updates.

                  As of now, no. You can only choose when they get updates.

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                  • DashrenderD
                    Dashrender
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                    I have to assume that even if the updates themselves are coming from a peer, that they are checksummed against something in the Windows Update for Business system, not just taking the word of the peer.

                    Assuming this all stays cloud based we should be even more protected than WSUS was.

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                    • DashrenderD
                      Dashrender
                      last edited by

                      So is WSUS gone? and replaced with a cloud service? How do you register?

                      FYI I haven't clicked on the link yet.

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                      • ?
                        A Former User
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                        No cloud service. It's a bit torrent service. With groups to roll updates in phases.

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                        • scottalanmillerS
                          scottalanmiller @A Former User
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                          @thecreativeone91 said:

                          @scottalanmiller said:

                          And I assume you can control the peer to peer nature as well. So that not all peers can push updates.

                          As of now, no. You can only choose when they get updates.

                          I expect that to change very quickly.

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