yeah, thats the danger, now isn't it. looks like we need to be promoting Linux and the BSD's a lot more folks. Considering things, we have a lot less security issues (although there are some, admittedly). -eric On Jun 25, 2017, at 11:01 AM, Matthew Crews wrote: > Running Windows 7 is a mixed bag though, from a security perspective. Wasn't it fully affected by WannaCry while Windows 10 was immune? Besides this leak will probably make it easy to port any win10 exploits to Win7 and Win8. > > > On Sun, Jun 25, 2017, 10:44 Eric Oyen wrote: > its a very good thing that I didn't upgrade to win10 on the windows machine. win7 is still stable, although it is getting a little long in the tooth. > > whats even funnier, the ubuntu instance here on the mac is still 14.04 LTS and it has had NO ISSUES. Its nice to dual boot this mac once in a while into linux and have some things actually work right. then again, OS X just works on its own. :) > > -eric > > --- > Help out a blind athlete to achieve his goals (including the Tokyo 2020 games). Show your support here: http://www.tiny.cc/EricOyen > > > On Jun 25, 2017, at 6:12 AM, Matthew Crews wrote: > >> Also not looking good for their Windows 10 S. It was found that Word macros could crack it's security wide open. (That also says a lot about how not secure MS Office is). >> >> Expect to see lots of zero day exploits as a result of this. >> >> >> On Sat, Jun 24, 2017, 23:26 Herminio Hernandez, Jr. wrote: >> I saw this yesterday. It is pretty interesting. >> >> On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 11:12 PM, Eric Oyen wrote: >> didn't MS claim they were more secure recently? sounds like they are about as secure as a screen door on a submarine. >> >> -eric >> >> On Jun 24, 2017, at 6:00 PM, techlists@phpcoderusa.com wrote: >> >>> Thought you might find this interesting. >>> >>> http://www.businessinsider.com/windows-10-source-code-leak-2017-6 >>> >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss