▲ | StanislavPetrov 2 days ago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
>You people don’t know or have forgotten what a god damn wasteland computers were 20 years ago. Computers were utopia 20 years ago as compared to today - especially when it comes to privacy, security and user-control. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
▲ | burnt-resistor 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
20 years ago (2003-2006), Welchia, Blaster, Code Red... Windows boxes that weren't patched were infected within about 35 ± 5 seconds when connected to lightly-filtered Internet when it was still a capitalized proper noun. Ask me how I know and used JScript and psexec to mass remote into LAN machines to try to stop some of the madness and downtime. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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▲ | throwanem 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Spoken like someone who knew no one other than fellow practitioners in the field. My God, the 2000s were the Wild West in every kind of way - were you even there to see it? I note you do not say that you were. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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