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[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Mainstream support ended 15 years ago. Extended security support ended 10 years ago. The last version to have any kind of update at all was their embedded OS version for things like cash registers, with the last security update 5 years ago.

So it's wildly insecure against any new attacks targeting an OS that's largely used by major corporations, governments, and medical facilities that are juicy targets for theft and ransomware attacks.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

There is a service called 0patch that offers live microcode updates for XP. They've even won bounties for a few things they caught before Microsoft.

I pay about $30 a year to live micropatch my WIn7 gaming partition and have had no issues despite also being a bit less than diligent when it comes to digital buccaneering on that machine.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Might not be so funny when you're slowly dying of radiation sickness.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What? First time I hear XP gives radiation sickness.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

It does when someone hacks the nukes that it controls.