alt Hacker NewsDebatable. "I connected Windows XP to the Internet; it was fine" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40528117
One comment there points out that XP is old enough for infected attack vectors to have all died out. I dunno.
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expedition32 • today at 11:42 AM
Anyone else noticed that we don't even GET patch notes anymore?
"Fixed some bugs" Yes thank you very helpful that! Now I can make a very informed decision.
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illiac786 • today at 8:09 AM
https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/idle-windows-x...
But good we are talking about my point rather than than the example.
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I experienced this first hand in 2014. We got to a point where drive-by exploit kits just weren’t shipping IE8, Java 6 or Windows XP payloads anymore.