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Apple Taking Heat for Auto-Update

Written on March 23, 2008 by Jethro Jones and 22 people have commented

Mozilla CEO John Lilly posted a scathing post about Apple auto-updating Windows users’ iTunes and Quicktime programs while adding in Safari 3.1. Lilly starts out by describing how important it is to update programs for the sake of security. He says:
There’s an implicit trust relationship between software makers and customers in this regard: as a [...]