Frighteningly, i worked as an admin at a hospitality wifi business that ran a windows box for dhcp duty. I would have to go o site, in the middle of the night, down to the basement of this hotel, and reboot the damn thing. It would die almost every week. Replaced with a linux server and never heard from them again.
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0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
I’m disturbed that an elevator is running a desktop OS. How did this happen? Did they never hear of microcontrollers?
Thrawne@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Valmond@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I could tell you the stories of W95 & XP that runs the medical world…
viking@infosec.pub 5 weeks ago
My assumption would be that the display is not related to operating the elevator, but rather displaying information about businesses on the respective floors. I’ve seen those a fair few times, and since they run on isolated networks or even fully local, there’s little risk.