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And yet XP is still running god knows how many major company systems (air gapped of course, but still).
I would expect there to be problems with most machines if they were to be fully exposed to the internet, nobody actually uses a computer like this
My router is a computer connected to the Internet. Yours probably is too.
your router is not running windows XP with the firewall turned off
In fact, it is the firewall that separates your network from the internet, it's the first line of defense that would normally provide some protection for an exploitable machine
I know that. Re-read the post I replied to.
Didn't someone implement a virus at some point that propagated through sound from speakers to microphones?
That was a way to offload information from an air gapped system. It already has to be compromised to work
IIRC that was not proven and the researcher who made that claim had some mental illness? Idk
To be fair, if we discredited research from individuals with mental illness half of our research would be gone.
But yeah, it was mostly a proof of concept of someone happened to plug a bad USB into an air gapped machine with a mic and speakers
Oh yea, I was consulting in a factory recently and one production line was running off of Finnish windows XP with no service packs because the software for the machines doesn't support anything else.