Board Thread:Bug Reports/@comment-25565811-20170120120301/@comment-25101690-20170206204549

Ffets wrote:

''Sinthorion wrote (in the spoiler) : ... security patches can be analysed to reveal the underlying vulnerabilities ...''

Oops, so the patches help hackers to attack unpatched systems. That sounds rather scary. Only if the update needs a long time to reach all users, which is the case in normal desktop applications. The trend now goes more towards web applications, where the patch is in effect for all users as soon as it is released.

But this problem is also the reason why a lot of software urges you to update as soon as possible. Java web applications give hard-to-bypass warnings when you don't have the most recent Java version. Many Steam games won't launch before you updated them, or won't let you enter multiplayer games.