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gmusleratoday at 8:36 PM1 replyview on HN

No, the elephant in the room is that even bad actors will now have easier to find vulnerabilities in, maintained or not, widely or in critical places used software. Unmaintained and remotely accessible devices should be discarded as soon as possible, you can't stay waiting till some of the good guys decide to give some time to your niche but critical unmaintained piece of software. Because if there is a possibility of taking profit of it, it will be checked and exploited.

And you can't assume that whatever vulnerability they have will let good guys to do the extra (and legally risky) work of closing the hole.


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touristtamtoday at 9:26 PM

_SHOULD_ yes sure, but realistically is that going to happen?

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