While I agree, I have seen TSA working at the bus station.
Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?
paultimate14@lemmy.world 2 weeks agoRight?
I never understand why people are so obsessed with not getting updates. They usually just break everything and bloat the OS.
“But my security!” OS updates are going to protect you from 99% of the bad actors out there. They do nothing against social engineering. They don’t make you use strong passwords. Most of the security flaws OS updates are addressing are the kinda of attacks that only state actors or organized crime rings have the resources and abilities to exploit.
Governments? Heck yeah they need to be concerned. Large enterprises? Definitely. Small businesses? Eh it’s probably for the best to protect your livelihood even if you aren’t the juiciest target. But for an individual using their PC for gaming, social media, streaming content, online shopping, etc… The cost-benefit analysis is different.
It’s not different from physical security. Theres a reason you don’t need to go through TSA to get on a bus.
Frozengyro@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
histic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
For now yes but when a zero day is found 1 guy could literally take down every single 10 install and Microsoft won’t be bothered to fix it
yucandu@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Why not? They were fixing Windows XP remote-execution exploits all the way up to 2017.
And that stuff is only used to take down children’s hospitals, they don’t waste 0-day exploits on some rando’s home PC.
paultimate14@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I mean… That could happen to Windows11 and be almost as catastrophic even if Microsoft does eventually fix it.
pathief@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The problem is that as soon as a security issue is found on windows 10 it won’t be fixed, it is perpetual. In Windows 11 it will probably be fixed before you even know it exists.
paultimate14@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You seem awfully optimistic about Microsoft’s response time lol.
How many people are out there today with broken locks on their doors or windows? How many stores do you think close every night with the minimum wage worker forgetting to lock up properly? How many people out their use incredibly weak passwords, share their credentials with others, or leave everything on post-it notes?
Security is a cost-benefit analysis. Depending on what exactly this hypothetical exploit requires I might very well be comfortable running Windows 10 anyways. The vast majority of security exploits require physical access to the machine- we only hear about the remote ones more often because they are scarier.