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"Still, episodes of online hacking have become even more startling, including the theft of personal data from millions of Target customers and terabytes of priv
by headmelted 11y ago
"Still, episodes of online hacking have become even more startling, including the theft of personal data from millions of Target customers and terabytes of private emails from Sony Pictures Entertainment (and both companies use some Microsoft products)."
So somewhere in Sony and Target's organisations there are one or more Windows computers?
This is just lazy reporting NYT. Do better.
- mcintyre1994 11y agoAgreed - I bet they use Google search every day and their execs have iPhones too.
- tim333 11y agoOf mild interest, in the Sony hack: "The hack, which was launched Nov. 24, only affected computers with Microsoft Corp's (MSFT.O) Windows software, so Sony employees using Apple Inc (AAPL.O) Macs, including many in the marketing department, had not been affected." IMHO Microsoft still have a fairly ho hum attitude. If you want to hack a company like Sony the easiest way is to target employees still using old systems like XP and they could have mopped a lot of that up by offering free upgrades to 10 when they offered them to users of 7 and 8 but nah.
- jerf 11y agoBy the time of the Sony hack, any machine still using XP is a machine that would be using XP even if Microsoft did exactly what you suggest. There's been no lack of opportunities to upgrade and the cost of a Windows license is generally trivial next to the labor expense, training expense, and monetized risk of "my critical software doesn't work" of the upgrade of these systems.