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Who in that age cohort didn't experience the wild west days of shady Flash and Java applets, Punch the Monkey games, RealPlayer, Shockwave, Internet Explorer an
by douche 10y ago
Who in that age cohort didn't experience the wild west days of shady Flash and Java applets, Punch the Monkey games, RealPlayer, Shockwave, Internet Explorer and all the other insecure crap we used to deal with.
Raise your hand if you never got a virus and almost bricked the family computer doing something mostly innocuous...
Ad-blocking may not be as essential to self-defense as it used to be, but old habits die hard.
- kaybe 10y agoOnly the things we defend again change, not the need for defense.
- Nadya 10y ago>Ad-blocking may not be as essential to self-defense as it used to be, but old habits die hard. Possibly even more relevant nowadays than it used to be with more drive-by malware, 0-day exploits, and more and more people using the internet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malvertising https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malvertising http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/03/big-name-sites-hit-by-rash-of-malicious-ads-spreading-crypto-ransomware/ http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/03/big-name-sites-hit-b...