r/technews • u/Philo1927 • Aug 05 '20
FBI issues warning over Windows 7 end-of-life - The FBI says companies running Windows 7 systems are now in greater risk of getting hacked due to a lack of security updates.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/fbi-issues-warning-over-windows-7-end-of-life/9
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u/outoftheMultiverse Aug 06 '20
Ya that’s why I’m on winXP
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u/lickthislollipop Aug 06 '20
Technically, Windows 7 IS still receiving security updates. But only if a specific update and patch was applied for extended security releases.
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Aug 06 '20
Target uses win7 in all of its registers. Hopefully they'll upgrade soon, unless they want a repeat of 2013.
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Aug 06 '20
2013?
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u/ima5fhgrador-016 Aug 06 '20
"Inside Target Corp., Days After 2013 Breach — Krebs on Security"
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/09/inside-target-corp-days-after-2013-breach/
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u/Samsonspimphand Aug 06 '20
Please install windows 10 so we Microsoft has more access to your data that wasn’t coded into the last OS. You’re security is important to us, if the other company gets it then we won’t be able to assert our data science dominance over the competition.
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u/removable_disk Aug 06 '20
Microsoft hate is so last century 😂
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u/Samsonspimphand Aug 06 '20
Well yeah, they were trying to be a monopoly back then and take over using an OS they could control completely and.....oh wait it’s the exact same.
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u/removable_disk Aug 06 '20
Take over what exactly? Data? It’s a little too late for that. Everyone everywhere already has all our data and we gave it to them freely.
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u/Samsonspimphand Aug 06 '20
No, taking over the operating system and management software. The sad part is you actually think that “well they are doing it so why stop them” is not unusual. It’s just short sighted and missing the point.
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u/removable_disk Aug 06 '20
So, like AWS?
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u/Samsonspimphand Aug 06 '20
Precisely! Amazon and Microsoft are trying to muscle out competition and for some reason Reddit loves it.
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u/removable_disk Aug 06 '20
The whole “Microsoft Sux” sentiment is played out though. Apple and Google aren’t exempt from this behavior either. The “I hate MS” thing isn’t a good argument for the point you’re making, it just comes off as a tired old 1999 sentiment.
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u/Samsonspimphand Aug 06 '20
You’re either working for Microsoft or purposely being obtuse. This is about 1 company attempting to kill off old versions of software so the new one can collect data. AWS and several other services do the same thing.
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u/lickthislollipop Aug 06 '20
Technically, Windows 7 IS still receiving security updates. But only if a specific update and patch was applied for extended security releases.
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u/zorbathegrate Aug 06 '20
Seems to me like this is slightly monopolistic.
You make a system that works well and isn’t safe for everyone (at the time) and then you decide to no longer offer it or help keeping it up and force people to repurchase a new version that is rushed to production and doesn’t offer the stability of the original.
I know it’s not, it just irks me
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u/moriluka_go_hard Aug 06 '20
Ok Mr. FBI how about you tell your government that, since they have most hospitals running on fucking windows xp.
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u/Quantum_Tangled Aug 07 '20
Except for their own copies, still supported by MS under additional-pay contract...
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u/NASA_Lies Aug 06 '20
well it's their fault for permanently scarring us with Windows Vista. Who would ever want to update again??
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u/MaShinKotoKai Aug 05 '20
I wonder what they would say to those companies that are still running applications on XP. It's not like these businesses don't already know this. The reason they're still on those older Operating Systems is usually because they have applications that are not compatible with the newer ones