alt Hacker News> YouTuber Eric Parker demonstrated in a recent video how dangerous it is to connect classic Windows operating systems
The video referenced in that article explicitly connects directly to the internet, using a VPN to bypass any ISP and router protections and most importantly disables any protections WinXP itself has.
So yeah, if you really go out of your way to disable all security protections, you may have a problem.
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illiac786 • yesterday at 5:54 PM
That’s still the example, not my point.
My point is, statistically, it is more secure to install updates as fast as possible.
We can take another example: search for “shitrix”, there’s thousands more CVEs out there to use as example.
Like leaving the lid off of my typewriter at lunchtime :-o