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Remember, just because it's no longer supported doesn't mean it no longer works. If it's within your risk tolerance, you can keep using it. Too often, people
by Sohcahtoa82 2y ago
Remember, just because it's no longer supported doesn't mean it no longer works. If it's within your risk tolerance, you can keep using it.
Too often, people everywhere, even on HN, talk as if end-of-support means you can't use it anywhere anymore.
- userbinator 2y agoThat's what the corporate propaganda does to people. IMHO if you're behind a NAT, not running random binaries, and not visiting untrustworthy pages with JS on, that already gets rid of 99.99% of the attack surface. Keep RDP and SMB off the Internet and shut off the other listening ports too.
- wongogue 2y ago> NAT Firewall. Bad ISP routers with/without NAT are no good.
- sunaookami 2y agoWe shouldn't encourage people to run old software. They will be part of a botnet sooner or later. It sucks yeah but people should rather switch to other operating systems instead of running one without security updates. AFAIK Win10 still gets paid updates though, that will extend the lifespan a bit.
- hulitu 2y ago> We shouldn't encourage people to run old software. They will be part of a botnet sooner or later. We shouldn't encourage people to run new, untested software. They will be part of a botnet sooner or later.
- userbinator 2y agoYes we should, because the new stuff isn't any better. "Security" is just an excuse at this point.
- Ekaros 2y agoNAT and not running binaries I might give. But never going to random web site? I don't think that one is going to happen.
- Sohcahtoa82 2y ago> and not visiting untrustworthy pages with JS on Assuming your browser is up-to-date and there isn't a 0-day being exploited, can a malicious website even do anything?
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