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passivate on Nov 4, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Thank you, GitHub

>If it would be "easily quantifiable", you would not see in 2021 still bank ATM running damn Windows XP or nuclear power plant under Win2000 with some old deprecated crap supervisor tools.

Why would you not see that? The risk profile is well understood, and can be mitigated. Sandboxes, firewalls, app-containers, input sanitization, Virtual Machines, etc, etc, etc.

I don't quite understand exactly what you're disagreeing with?

adev_ on Nov 5, 2021 [–]

> Why would you not see that? The risk profile is well understood, and can be mitigated.

So well understood that hacks on ATM happens every weeks :)

passivate on Nov 5, 2021 | [–]

Which magical technology are you proposing that doesn't get hacked?

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