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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We had air gapped systems (we didn't have internet) in the 90s and they still got viruses(from floppy disks). I don't understand what is new?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hell, there was a time dropping USB sticks in a parking lot would get systems like this infected. That might be how Stuxnet got into the Iranian centrifuges.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Was a time?

It's absolutely still a thing. Just label it "VP Qrtly".

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

"Vascular... penus... quart of lye? I gotta see what's on this"