When to update?

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 19:43:02 -0500,
  Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org> wrote:
> 
> If you are connected to the internet in any way, your machine will get
> hacked and you will become part of a botnet serving spam or worse. This is
> pretty much an inevitability.

It isn't that bad. If you block inbound connections by default and do your
own updates of services that are accessible from the network, and don't
have any untrusted local users, you are fairly safe. If you are only going
to have a couple network services available, it might be enough less work
to be worthwhile.