As technology marches on, some people get trapped using decades-old software and devices. Here's a look inside the strange, stubborn world of obsolete Windows machines.
    • jjjalljs@ttrpg.network
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      4 days ago

      If it’s connecting to the Internet and not getting security updates, that’s probably not good.

      So what you said is mostly true, but there are certainly people running windows XP thinking “I just check my email and read the news, this is fine”

      • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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        4 days ago

        Meh.

        If the other layers of security are in place, the risk can be managed.

        The problem you describe is from things like that XP user running as admin, a failure of security layering.

        Security isn’t just having all the updates, which is the implication statements like this makes.

        I have XP VM’s with no service packs that connect to the internet. They’re NAT’ed in VMware to an isolated subnet that has its own firewall. No MS ports are permitted out of that subnet other than RDP, and that only from specific IP addresses. There’s more, but even just this addresses most security concerns.

        This is used for testing specific software that only runs on XP.