Not to get snarky or OS elitist but as I understand it windows security, even during its support period has been measured in low digit number of days in the year when is NOT an outstanding known remote root compromise or combination of remote user compromise + priviledge escalation. Add in phishing, watering holes, malware and the average windows computer is probably compromised a dozen times over. Apparently for sometime it was not easily possible to secure it install boot - install OS, connect to network to download security updates, IP range scanned and compromised faster than you can patch it.
Adam On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 05:28:27PM +0200, Wladimir wrote: > On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 5:20 PM, Pieter Wuille > <[1]pieter.wui...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 5:12 PM, Kevin <[2]kevinsisco61...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > I think we should get to the bottom of this. Â Should we assume that > xp is > > not secure enough? > > Yes. > > It will quickly grow extremely insecure. > People will be actively analyzing patches to post-XP versions to find > security problems that are patched there, to see if they can be > exploited on XP. > Wladimir ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. Written by three acclaimed leaders in the field, this first edition is now available. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/NeoTech _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development