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  • See an example here:

    Microsoft said both issues could allow attackers to execute code with elevated privileges, although there are currently no indications on how they are being exploited and how widespread these efforts may be. In the case of CVE-2025-24990, the company said it’s planning to remove the driver entirely, rather than issue a patch for a legacy third-party component.

    The security defect has been described as “dangerous” by Alex Vovk, CEO and co-founder of Action1, as it’s rooted within legacy code installed by default on all Windows systems, irrespective of whether the associated hardware is present or in use.

    New attack vectors are found constantly. Having no support can very likely result in a system that can be automatically breached in a few weeks to months.

    As long as you don’t have a public IP on your device and are in a trusted network you should be fine. But if you use a public wifi or somehow expose a port to the internet you’re increasingly vulnerable for each day after the last security update.







  • EOL means no more security updates, which means attack vectors don’t get patched.

    If you keep using a Windows installation (or any OS for that matter) that isn’t patched regularly you are very likely to be victim to some malicious actor eventually. It’s not manual hacking anymore, it’s bots scraping the whole internet exploiting known vulnerabilities completely automated.

    The risk is much lower if you’re in a home network with NAT, where your PCs IP is not publicly reachable, but if you communicate with any webservices you’re still vulnerable.

    As example. If you nowadays put a Windows XP machine live on the internet with a public IP, it will be compromised within minutes.

    So yeah. Good call switching to Mint, but please don’t use unpatched Windows.




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    6 months ago

    Das geht ja noch viel tiefer als nur das falsch abstellen.

    Der Typ regt sich ja auf, dass es Strafen gibt, wenn man Eigentum der Firma (Fahrtenbuch) irgendwo verliert, wenn man drinnen raucht und wenn man den Wagen beschädigt.

    Also so ignorant und eingebildet muss man mal sein, dass man so einen Vertrag eingeht, gegen Bedingungen verstößt und dann die Vermieter als die Arschlöcher sieht.









  • Yeah, and now we have the party of conservatives that never lead any positive change, the fossilised socialists that kinda forgot they’re supposed to make stuff better for non-business owners and the “modern” economists that want to privatise everything.

    Idk guys, but the choices here currently are between a new hitler or the same shit that caused the rise of our new hitler in the first place.

    The only sane person in our government is our federal president, which is soon up for election again, where the far right will have a good chance of winning, because people here are mostly misinformed and full of hate.