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Corporations like Microsoft have successfully hammered this idea into people's heads that the evil hacker known as Anonymous will hack into your fridge and make
by bakugo 4y ago
Corporations like Microsoft have successfully hammered this idea into people's heads that the evil hacker known as Anonymous will hack into your fridge and make it explode and burn your house down if you forget to update it for two weeks.
Almost nobody who makes a big deal out of this has ever actually been affected by it, they're just parroting what they're told.
- samplatt 4y ago>Almost nobody who makes a big deal out of this has ever actually been affected by it, they're just parroting what they're told. Either that or they're paid to come and clean up the mess after a company has been hacked due to one or two random servers not being updated in the last few years.
- bakugo 4y agoServers (especially corporate ones) are an entirely different matter. This post is specifically about personal devices that probably aren't running any server software and are almost definitely behind a firewall.
- Aeolun 4y agoI mean, I used to say that updating was important when updates were painless and worked. Now that we've successfully convinced everyone to always update, corporations use it to push fresh malware/ads.
- dizhn 4y agoNot only that they made updates they really really want to make automatic and compulsory.