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A Windows XP machine's life expectancy in 2024 seems to be about 10 minutes before even just an idle net connection renders it a trojan-riddled zombie PC (www.pcgamer.com)

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Just a fun, somewhat terrifying read

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Can you expand on this with some more detail?

I’ve worked on DoD networks continuously since 2011 and nothing you said is true, provided I understood you correctly.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I am more referring to the U.S. Army intranet system. Which while some services can be accessed from the internet, some can only be accessed while connected to the Army Intranet. The Amry uses alot of terminals, computers, that have no need to connect to the internet but only the Army intranet.

Also, the Army modfies some of the programs and hardwere they use, such as Windows from their standard commercial versions, removing or changing features and such.