Comment on Windows 3.1 saves the day during CrowdStrike outage — Southwest Airlines scrapes by with archaic OS
phoneymouse@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The fact that they’re running 3.1 is not something to be proud of. They’re probably extremely vulnerable to any other attack.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Quite the opposite.
Jagger2097@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Please explain. I’ll make 🍿
RustyHeater@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Microsoft’s Wolverine for the TCP stack was not available until Windows 3.11. An argument could be made that these systems are defacto air-gapped as they cannot communicate with modern networking.
mosiacmango@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Youre assuming the articles “windows 3.1” is both specific and correct from a non technical article. Since lacking a network stack tends to limit usability, unless the systems are intentionally air gapped they likely are windows 3.1.1 or further. Based on Southwest extensively documented and decades long IT neglect taht landed its current CEO in forbt of Congress for a previous unrelated outage, i doubt the systems are intentionally airgapped, as that implies a working and well funded IT staff.