WizardStan
Mega GP Mania
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Lots of ways. The argument starts with the assumption that the probability that there is someone willing to take the time to find and exploit a bug in the code for nefarious purposes is not zero. If you assume that there is literally no chance that anyone could want to compromise your Pandora then yes, automatic is strictly better than by hand, but if there's no fear of compromise then you may as well just stick a "yourusername ALL = NOPASSWD : ALL" into the sudoers file and be done with it.
But if there is even a sliver of a chance that someone might find a buffer overflow and inject their own code into it then security tilts entirely in favour of manual updates.
But if there is even a sliver of a chance that someone might find a buffer overflow and inject their own code into it then security tilts entirely in favour of manual updates.