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This guy is very naive if he thinks flicking a few buttons in the UI of his ancient operating system is going to keep him from getting pwt. Edit: might as well

This guy is very naive if he thinks flicking a few buttons in the UI of his ancient operating system is going to keep him from getting pwt. Edit: might as well provide more info. Windows XP was notorious for its security issues which were fixed in the server version at the time. Even recent versions of Windows have been effected by 'zero-click' vulns in the TCP/IP stack which is about as bad as it gets. MS rated it a 9/10 but if all that's needed to own a box is sending the right packet then I can't imagine what a level 10 vuln looks like.

BenjiWiebe 2y ago
If you are behind a normal consumer router (default deny incoming connections) how to you send the right packet to the computer? It would have to be a response to a connection you initiated. If you were careful about sites you connected to, you should be reasonably safe. I.e. I don't see Google/Microsoft/BBC/Apple/Wikipedia sending a xp-hacking packet in response to an HTTP request.