Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?
Adalast@lemmy.world 1 week agoLuckily I already don’t trust the internet already and don’t go anywhere online without script blockers and I don’t open emails as a rule of thumb. I am sure it will be dangerous, but I am not relying on passive security already.
Dran_Arcana@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Every packet you send/receive relies on passive security. Your nic drivers, the driver kernel model, all of the userland applications that sit on top of it. I get that in practical terms, your firewall will do a lot of the heavy lifting but there are passive rce vulnerabilities in previous unsupported versions of Windows that are trivially exploitable today.
Nosavingthrow@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Man, I wish these people would fucking be cool. I just want to play games. There is nothing valuable on my desktop for you
Dran_Arcana@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Me too brother, but I disagree with your assessment on value
An non-blacklisted residential IP address with reasonable throughput is valuable in and of itself. DDOS botnets, proxies to bypass geo blocks or to obfuscate illicit traffic, etc. Also your gaming PC could be used for distributed compute workloads of compromised, usually crypto mining.
Any hardware/connection has value if it’s “free”. It’s just a numbers game beyond that.
Nosavingthrow@lemmy.world 1 week ago
You’ve convinced me. They want access to my connection and maybe some processing power; they DON’T want my dungeons and dragons notes.