On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 11:40 AM, Ken Dibble <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Again, the older your OS is, the less likely it is an actual target for > real, not theoretical, malware that is actually in circulation today. And, with all due respect in return, we continue to disagree on this point. WinXP is a marvelous target for bad guys. Little old ladies (and guys, until recently, my dad among them), have Windows XP machines hooked up to the internet, often poorly, often out-of-date with updates, hanging off half-decent internet connections cable and DSL, running 24 hours a day. These are _perfect_ machines to harvest and take over in command-and-control botnets to churn out spam and participate in DDOS attacks. These happen, every day , and botnets of millions of compromised machines (feel free to search the web for this info yourself) are running everyday. And offices are filled with clueless clerks who love to play games or visit sketch sites on their breaks and lots of small- and medium-sized businesses host botnets, too. While the bad guys have control of your machine, it's pretty trivial to pick off your credit card info, tax return and compromising selfies, too. This is happening today, every day. Even if you refuse to believe it. > SSL certificates are a form of blackmail. You pay in order to get somebody > to issue an opinion that your encryption is good. That does not mean your > encryption is not good if you don't pay to get the certificate. > You can always self-sign certificates, and establish your own web of trust. We do for many of our applications. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/cacw6n4uzotahdocyzn9yakcn8jogqhvrinfqipnj5h0xgnm...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
