[olug] OT: security through antiquity

[Phil Brutsche]

Will Langford wrote:
> I suppose ya could make an argument that 'through antiquity' is just a
> special case of 'through obscurity' ...

Is it?

This particular article talks about IE5 running on... wait for it...
Windows 3.1!

Windows 3.1 has no security mechanisms what-so-ever and I'm sure that
it's chock full of buffer overruns and stack overflows and ..., but how
much malware will run outside of Win32?

It's similar to one of the arguments for running MacOS or Linux.

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Phil Brutsche
phil at brutsche.us