[olug] OT: security through antiquity

[Sam Tetherow]

Even if it didn't have malware, would you really want to go back to the 
days of Trumpet WinSOCK?

Sam Tetherow
Sandhills Wireless

Phil Brutsche wrote:
> 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.
>
>