The conversation is getting silly.
Sony got hacked. Like many large corporations, they are very concerned
about threats from outside. But once an intruder is inside, every door in
the building was basically found to be unlocked. Good security is layered
security - getting in the front door does not give you access to everything.
And the issue of broadband vs. dial-up really for ease of hacking is not
relevant. Broadband does make it slightly easier, not because of the
speed, but because the connection is always on and in the same place all of
the time. It's much easier to test the security of an entity when they
keep showing up at the same place (IP address) all of the time.
And even in ye olde days, if hacking over the network was not feasible then
the hacking would have been done from inside. Data would be carried out
using floppies, tapes, Zip drives, CD-R, etc. Physical security at many
corporations is often pretty weak too.
Getting back on topic ...
Browsing under DOS is a lost cause. The world has moved on. We do not
have enough library or developer support to keep modern applications
running under DOS. It's just not worth the effort. Modern hardware is
cheap enough were this should not even be a concern.
DOS and its variants are a niche. They are not good for running Java,
Javascript, etc. Use and enjoy DOS for what it was good at, and
occasionally be unreasonable and do something cool that people are not
expecting. But don't expect to keep parity with Linux, Windows, MacOS and
ChromeOS - that is just not feasible.
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