Comment on Windows 3.1 saves the day during CrowdStrike outage — Southwest Airlines scrapes by with archaic OS

• 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.

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  • 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.

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    • areyouevenreal@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Just because it doesn’t have TCP/IP doesn’t mean there isn’t networking. Networks existed before the Internet and its Internet Protocol after all. It wouldn’t be so much air gapped as so archaic that only the most targeted attacks would work, and only if there is an infected PC acting as an intermediate between the Internet and ye olde network. Chances are it was never connected to the modern Internet as the technologies just aren’t compatible.

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      • Jagger2097@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Old doesn’t mean secure. Those old systems have had decades since the last security patch. Even then computer security was barely a consideration for the developers.

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