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PhoneBoy Speaks Ep 974: Connecting Computing Dinosaurs To The Internet

If you think it’s scary that people are still using Windows XP systems to access the Internet, consider that many systems with critical data now accessible on Internet are older than Microsoft itself.

Links:

  • [Living Dinosaurs of Computing that Handle Highly Sensitive Information are Being Blithely Hooked Up to the Internet MIT Technology Review](http://www.technologyreview.com/news/540011/mainframe-computers-that-handle-our-most-sensitive-data-are-open-to-internet-attacks/)

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PhoneBoy Speaks Ep 974: Connecting Computing Dinosaurs To The Internet

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