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Also, data centers rarely run on vulnerable Microsoft Windows workstations.

• mintskoal 5y ago
  Needed a flashback to the 90s tonight, thank you. Our 3k+ Windows VMs sitting in a datacenter would tend to disagree. There are a lot of good answers about segregation, diligence and security in this thread. Knee jerk "windows!!!!" replies aren't good at all.
  • RantyDave 5y ago
    It's not just "windows", it's the kind of people who are on the other end of it. If your attack relies on someone downloading "funny toolbar" and saying "yes" to the wrong thing, then at least some of the world wide droves of Karens will let it in. Hence ... targeting Windows.
• pjmlp 5y ago
  Indeed, they run on properly configured Microsoft Windows Server instances.
• tester34 5y ago
  pretty naive to think that datacenter is only made of engineers/admins but anyway, even sys admins use both - windows and linux.
  • Underphil 5y ago
    He was referring to the server side, not the client side.
    • tester34 5y ago
      fair, but on the other hand - client side being ransomware'd affects datacenter too
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