I get that there won’t be any security updates. So any problem found can be exploited. But how high is the chance for problems for an average user if you say, only browse some safe websites? If you have a pc you don’t really care much about, without any personal information? It feels like the danger is more theoretical than what will actually happen.

Or… are there any examples of people (not corpos) getting wrecked in the past by an eol OS?

    • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
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      7 months ago

      Not proven faked, your video author chose a different set of parameters to test.

      I.e. using a nat, Using sp2

      It’s a different test.

      But in any circumstance, the original video is illustrative, of the dangers running outdated software