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toast0today at 4:43 PM0 repliesview on HN

> In decades of using and managing many kinds of computers I have seen only a handful of dynamic libraries for whom security updates have been useful, e.g. OpenSSL.

> On the other hands, I have seen countless problems caused by updates of dynamic libraries that have broken various applications,

OpenSSL is a good example of both useful and problematic updates. The number of updates that fixed a critical security problem but needed application changes to work was pretty high.