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Your Windows 10 PC will soon be 'junk' - users told to resist Microsoft deadline::If you're still using Windows 10 and don't want to upgrade to Windows 11 any time soon you might want to sign a new online petition

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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm with you there. It's all layer upon layer of vulnerability and false security, and then at the bottom of all of it lurks the Ken Thompson hack.

Still bad advice to tell people it's okay to use an explicitly vulnerable OS, I think.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

But in that lies the rub, how is it explicitly vulnerable?