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.
I wouldn’t be surprised if there are a bumper crop of level 10 CVEs in the latest and “greatest” version of Windows 7 that will never get patched. Unless you have one of those special enterprise licenses that they keep updating.
No one is attacking your system like that, you are not that big of a deal. And if you are, why would you think the new software would not be as vulnerable? Because the vulnerability is not yet listed? Because the backdoors and tricks are not documented?
Such as by disconnecting the ethernet and power cables
When you get your IT knowledge from the '90s movie Hackers…
I wouldn’t be surprised if there are a bumper crop of level 10 CVEs in the latest and “greatest” version of Windows 7 that will never get patched. Unless you have one of those special enterprise licenses that they keep updating.
No one is attacking your system like that, you are not that big of a deal. And if you are, why would you think the new software would not be as vulnerable? Because the vulnerability is not yet listed? Because the backdoors and tricks are not documented?
This mindset always bugged me, its just madness.
But it sounds cool! Angelina Jolie and Sandra Bullock are waiting for me in my apartment to hack the web!