From: Adam Back <adam@cypherspace•org>
To: Wladimir <laanwj@gmail•com>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Warning message when running wallet in Windows XP (or drop support?)
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 21:43:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140416194310.GA11552@netbook.cypherspace.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+s+GJDaLoDoxORfKEKeUpKgytwSUhH67Oj2_e6WoRup8eMG=w@mail.gmail.com>
Not to get snarky or OS elitist but as I understand it windows security,
even during its support period has been measured in low digit number of days
in the year when is NOT an outstanding known remote root compromise or
combination of remote user compromise + priviledge escalation. Add in
phishing, watering holes, malware and the average windows computer is
probably compromised a dozen times over. Apparently for sometime it was not
easily possible to secure it install boot - install OS, connect to network
to download security updates, IP range scanned and compromised faster than
you can patch it.
Adam
On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 05:28:27PM +0200, Wladimir wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 5:20 PM, Pieter Wuille
> <[1]pieter.wuille@gmail•com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 5:12 PM, Kevin <[2]kevinsisco61784@gmail•com>
> wrote:
> > I think we should get to the bottom of this. Â Should we assume that
> xp is
> > not secure enough?
>
> Yes.
>
> It will quickly grow extremely insecure.
> People will be actively analyzing patches to post-XP versions to find
> security problems that are patched there, to see if they can be
> exploited on XP.
> Wladimir
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-16 19:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-16 8:14 Wladimir
2014-04-16 8:45 ` Melvin Carvalho
2014-04-16 9:41 ` Wladimir
2014-04-16 11:06 ` [Bitcoin-development] mid-term bitcoin security (Re: Warning message when running wallet in Windows XP (or drop support?)) Adam Back
2014-04-18 14:26 ` Jeff Garzik
2014-04-18 14:39 ` Justus Ranvier
2014-04-16 15:12 ` [Bitcoin-development] Warning message when running wallet in Windows XP (or drop support?) Kevin
2014-04-16 15:20 ` Pieter Wuille
2014-04-16 15:28 ` Wladimir
2014-04-16 16:27 ` Kevin
2014-04-16 16:35 ` Mark Friedenbach
2014-04-16 16:41 ` Chris Williams
2014-04-16 16:44 ` Mark Friedenbach
2014-04-16 16:50 ` Chris Williams
2014-04-16 18:59 ` Kevin
2014-04-16 19:43 ` Adam Back [this message]
2014-04-16 20:42 ` Roy Badami
2014-04-16 21:10 ` Laszlo Hanyecz
2014-04-16 21:29 ` Kevin
2014-04-16 21:39 ` Mark Friedenbach
2014-04-16 22:00 ` Pieter Wuille
2014-04-16 15:23 ` Mark Friedenbach
2014-04-16 22:06 ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-04-17 7:39 ` Wladimir
[not found] ` <CACKnu1prEkZb5L4bGeKfjHtW+1CLmAuYr2-OWq0z5z+SvxhLTg@mail.gmail.com>
2014-04-17 7:27 ` Wladimir
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