From: Mark Friedenbach <mark@monetize•io>
To: Kevin <kevinsisco61784@gmail•com>
Cc: 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 08:23:54 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACh7GpFb0Txme33Bk3fJ8nOx3+pE+BcF1psYYpBBsiRp1zNBEA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <534E9DDC.7000502@gmail.com>
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XP is no longer receiving security patches from Microsoft, and hasn't been
for some time. There are known remote exploits that aren't going to be
fixed, ever.
On Apr 16, 2014 8:15 AM, "Kevin" <kevinsisco61784@gmail•com> wrote:
> On 4/16/2014 4:14 AM, Wladimir wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Today I noticed that even my bank is warning people to not do internet
> banking with Windows XP.
>
> If it is no longer secure enough for online banking it's CERTAINLY not
> secure enough to run a wallet (for a node only it would be ok-ish as they
> have no keys to protect).
> Any opinions on what to do here? Just warn and allow the user to
> continue? Redirect them to a 'Windows XP is dangerous' message on
> bitcoin.org? (Microsoft uses
> http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/end-support-help)
>
> The drawback of dropping XP support completely would be that a lot of
> computers (especially in China and Russia etc) are still running XP, so
> this could cause the network to lose nodes.
>
> If you're maintainer of other wallet software: how are you handling this?
> Are you going to drop XP support completely? If so, starting from when?
>
> Regards,
> Wladimir
>
>
>
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> I think we should get to the bottom of this. Should we assume that xp is
> not secure enough? What is this warning? Who is issuing this warning?
>
>
> --
> Kevin
>
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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
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 [this message]
2014-04-16 22:06 ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-04-17 7:39 ` Wladimir
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2014-04-17 7:27 ` Wladimir
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