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These unofficial patches are cool, but I can't bring myself to install anything that doesn't have a public confirmed good sha256 sum. Probably just paranoia, b

• FirmwareBurner 3y ago
  If you really care about your security and private info you wouldn't be daily driving a Windows XP system connected to the internet in the first place. This is great for retro computing on old PCs and tinkering projects, not to do your banking on or run your old factory equipment.
  • hulitu 3y ago
    > If you really care about your security and private info you wouldn't be daily driving a Windows XP system connected to the internet in the first place. Maybe you are confusing things a bit. Windows XP, unlike 10 or 11 does not phone home. And from a purely security perspective they are mostly equal. (on XP you had worms, on 10 and 11 you have ransomware). The difference might be that with XP you can still recover your data.
    • FirmwareBurner 3y ago
      > Windows XP, unlike 10 or 11 does not phone home. I think you are the one who confused things. I didn't mean not to use Windows XP because Windows XP will phone home, but because that edition of Windows XP comes form an unknow source which might be loaded with malware that might phone home, and plus it's an 20 year old OS so you neve know what security holes it still has which become vulnerable once connected to the internet. I repeat, this is not made for daily driving and putting valuable data on it. It's great for tinkering on VMs and old PCs.
  • sentientslug 3y ago
    Actually I think you’ll find that old factory equipment runs on versions far worse than this…