Re: Brainless Debian Stable installation and usage?
On Sat, 2014-03-08 at 13:13 +0000, Joe wrote:
> On Sat, 8 Mar 2014 21:42:47 +0900
> Joel Rees <joel.rees@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 5:25 PM, Steve Litt at Troubleshooters.Com
> > <littdom@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Fri, 07 Mar 2014 18:54:13 +0100
> > > Guy Marcenac <guy@posteurs.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >> [...]. Surely, there is something I did not understand about your
> > >> needs.
> > >
> > > Security.
> > >
> > > SteveT
> >
> > You get me in a mood to riff on Microsoft and security, and I'll rail
> > on them as much as anyone. (More than most.)
> >
> > But it's not the tech. MSWindows 7/8, if you are willing (And most
> > don't _feel_ secure unless they do.) to use Semantics's packaged
> > "security" products, you can get as good results as using Linux
> > without understanding security.
> >
>
> Assuming you trust Microsoft and Symantec/McAfee/whoever...
>
> But the point here was not that XP has poor security now, but that it
> will go downhill very rapidly after April 8th, when all the world's bad
> guys will be targeting those who continue to use XP, and no security
> holes will ever again be fixed. The same will be true, though with
> rather less publicity, of Office 2003 products.
In Germany it does have it's good side that XP isn't supported anymore.
We get completely new cash machines. The Postbank's cash machine close
to me had no light, IOW, when it was dark, it was impossible to see the
numbers on the num pad. A few days ago I was present, when they replaced
it by a new cash machine. Usually I prefer when old hardware is used as
long as possible, but here in the Ruhrgebiet we have some cash machines,
that are much too old. Seemingly the ending support for XP is the reason
for the banks here to replace the much too old hardware. That crooks
were able to manipulate the cash machines wasn't a reason to update the
hardware.
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