> haven't powered on in close to a year. Didn't you just say you were viewing that website from the iBook but yet it hasn't been turned on in over year? So whi

> haven't powered on in close to a year. Didn't you just say you were viewing that website from the iBook but yet it hasn't been turned on in over year? So which is it? Are you actively using that computer or are you just using it as a strawman to prove some orthogonal point.. > Unless every single piece of software on every piece of hardware on their network is fully patched and up to date, and doesn't contain any zero-day vulnerabilities, of course. Take two scenarios: one where everyone is on a unpatched 2004 iBook and one that we live in today. The chances of the former being hacked are WAY higher. > What point do you think I apparently helped prove? That you're an edge case and people aren't actively running on older versions of software because software vendors provide support to those systems. Support requires costly resources (humans, systems, etc.) to maintain. Those updates don't just come for free. The "system" that the WP article is referring to is the whole mobile ecosystem and internet. iOS needs to constantly be updated (including the SDK) to mitigate every new attack that comes with changes in ISPs, people's usage behavior, SSL/TLS changes, Wi-fi changes, and and and...this list goes on forever. So how do you expect Apple to keep up with those changes? How do they enforce their walled garden has gardeners who water their plants and give them nutrients? EDIT: To further reiterate, back to one of your points before: > Still, yes, I wish there wasn't such a constant expectation from tech companies to constantly update to the latest & greatest For exactly the reasons I put above. There's probably a good reason TLS/SSL is throwing an error...because SSL2/3 is deemed insecure and this is an enforcement policy to change webmaster's behaviors.