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Fixing all the security vulns of an old system like macos 7.5 would take a long time.
by fnord77 5y ago
Fixing all the security vulns of an old system like macos 7.5 would take a long time.
- spijdar 5y agoFixing the security vulns in a non-networked computer would also be a lot less critical...
- kitsunesoba 5y agoNo doubt, but vulnerabilities aren't too much of a concern for a permanently offline machine, as something oriented toward focus probably would be.
- titzer 5y agoHaving an order of magnitude (maybe two) fewer lines of code goes a long way to having fewer vulnerabilities. Given the longer and more rigid development cycle and smaller attack surface, it's reasonable to think there are relatively few defects.
- rbanffy 5y agoIf you go back far enough, you'll need someone who knows how to make an RCE over AppleTalk. Probably doable, BTW. Office (and home) networks were much less hostile back then.
- flatiron 5y agoIf you air gap it why would it matter?
- selfhoster11 5y agoFor a writing machine, it would be preferable to keep it offline so security issues wouldn't matter.
- rbanffy 5y agoYes, but Wikipedia and Google are very handy. Addictive websites not so much.
- setpatchaddress 5y agoProbably not possible if you want to directly run a modern web experience on it. Classic macOS has effectively no memory protection.