• voodooattack@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Legacy hardware and operating systems are battle tested, having been extensively probed and patched during their heyday. The same can be said for software written for these platforms – they have been refined to the point that they can execute their intended tasks without incident. If it is ain’t broke, don’t fix it. One could also argue that dated platforms are less likely to be targeted by modern cybercriminals. Learning the ins and outs of a legacy system does not make sense when there are so few targets still using them. A hacker would be far better off to master something newer that millions of systems still use.

    Tell me you know nothing about cybersecurity without telling me you know nothing about cybersecurity. Wtf is this drivel?

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      10 months ago

      The author’s grammar rammar isnt that great as well. Those typos can be should have been catched easily by the spellcheck.

      Edit: Including me :p

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        10 months ago

        The author’s rammar

        Finally caught a *grammar cop doing a typo in the wild. Pure joy.

  • AlmightySnoo 🐢🇮🇱🇺🇦@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Not gonna lie, part of me wants to relive the SoundBlaster and DOS extenders era and watch stuff with QuickTime. Tinkering with config.sys and autoexec.bat was quite fun back then.

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      10 months ago

      Was it really FUN or is it not just nostalgia? I would not reaaaally want to fiddle with the autostart-crap again. It often took soooo long. Even with those auto-optimizers…