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So you play games with Windows security updates turned off? Why don't you just post all of your passwords and bank accounts on the internet and save yourself th

So you play games with Windows security updates turned off? Why don't you just post all of your passwords and bank accounts on the internet and save yourself the trouble of waiting to get hacked.

heyoni 5y ago
- legalcorrection 5y ago
  Hope there's no microphone or webcam connected to your computer, because an attacker can listen or watch. Also, your firewall is worthless because attackers have a foothold inside your network. Also, hope you don't use the same user/password combination on any windows machines or SMB shares on your network, because those are now pwned too. Buy a game, credit card info stolen. This is just such a preposterous way to operate.
  - heyoni 5y ago
    I run a wire to the unit next door and use my neighbor's internet and all the microphones have been covered with blue tapes and the webcams are pointing at my bird cage. I can't wait to install this.
brimble 5y ago
IDK about other folks, but very few of my passwords and nothing that'd get you direct access to any of my bank accounts touches my Window gaming machine (which is also my only Windows machine) Important account credentials are on macOS or iOS. Local copies of my important files are on a system running Linux, and the Windows machine doesn't have access to that (doesn't need to, all I do on it is play games, if I didn't PC game I wouldn't have Windows at all). [EDIT] However, mine does have Windows Update turned on.
yjftsjthsd-h 5y ago
They specifically said >> Some of us have windows just to play games What bank accounts do you think are on that machine? Perhaps it's risking credentials to ex. Steam and such, but again, if all you run is games where are you getting malware from? Edit: Actually, to steel man the argument: If you pirate a game and get a keylogger that way, and then type in your credit card to buy a game (ex. on Steam), then you'd have a problem. I maintain that it's perfectly possible to maintain a... "DMZ PC" for games, but there are ways for it to end badly.
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JoeMamaAME 5y ago
I think you severely overestimate how important security updates are.

So you play games with Windows security updates turned off? Why don't you just post all of your passwords and bank accounts on the internet and save yourself the trouble of waiting to get hacked.

heyoni 5y ago

legalcorrection 5y ago
Hope there's no microphone or webcam connected to your computer, because an attacker can listen or watch. Also, your firewall is worthless because attackers have a foothold inside your network. Also, hope you don't use the same user/password combination on any windows machines or SMB shares on your network, because those are now pwned too. Buy a game, credit card info stolen. This is just such a preposterous way to operate.
- heyoni 5y ago
  I run a wire to the unit next door and use my neighbor's internet and all the microphones have been covered with blue tapes and the webcams are pointing at my bird cage. I can't wait to install this.

brimble 5y ago

IDK about other folks, but very few of my passwords and nothing that'd get you direct access to any of my bank accounts touches my Window gaming machine (which is also my only Windows machine) Important account credentials are on macOS or iOS. Local copies of my important files are on a system running Linux, and the Windows machine doesn't have access to that (doesn't need to, all I do on it is play games, if I didn't PC game I wouldn't have Windows at all). [EDIT] However, mine does have Windows Update turned on.

yjftsjthsd-h 5y ago

They specifically said >> Some of us have windows just to play games What bank accounts do you think are on that machine? Perhaps it's risking credentials to ex. Steam and such, but again, if all you run is games where are you getting malware from? Edit: Actually, to steel man the argument: If you pirate a game and get a keylogger that way, and then type in your credit card to buy a game (ex. on Steam), then you'd have a problem. I maintain that it's perfectly possible to maintain a... "DMZ PC" for games, but there are ways for it to end badly.

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JoeMamaAME 5y ago

I think you severely overestimate how important security updates are.