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Someone connected Windows XP to the internet, and it didn't survive long (www.xda-developers.com)

submitted 6 months ago by 0x0 to c/tech

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[–] 0x0 12 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Granted, Eric turned off the firewall on Windows XP before he started the experiment, but we have a sneaking suspicion that a security suite that hasn't been updated for at least a decade doesn't have much chance against modern tactics.

But yeah, would've been more interesting with the fw running.

[–] bitfucker 3 points 6 months ago

Correct me if I am wrong, isn't a simple firewall that blocks incoming and outgoing connection is basically impenetrable? Because when something tries to connect, then the connection is dropped immediately unless on a certain port. If even the connection attempt were ignored, how would an exploit achieve some form of connection? Unless we are talking about application level firewall or deep packet inspection

[–] refalo 2 points 6 months ago

What "modern tactics" actually work on XP?