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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

About ten years back, I had moved away from home and was living in a small town with no Internet in my apartment. The only internet connection I had was the local library.

I remember being so surprised at the amount of viruses on those dumb computers. I wondered what the heck people were doing to them to get them in that state, and then one time I saw some dude looking up porn and just downloading whatever programs the pages he came to told him to.

Anyway, I'm glad I have Internet in my apartment now.

[–] PM_Your_Nudes_Please 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The computers likely get automatically re-imaged overnight, so every morning is a fresh start. That (and some VERY strong LAN isolation) is pretty standard for public-facing computers, for exactly this reason.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

That definitely wasn't the case for this small-town library.