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Re: Maskirovka! Russian Hackers Breach Pentagon Computers; Email System Down for a Fortnight |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Sat Aug 8 23:47:12 2015, in response to Re: Maskirovka! Russian Hackers Breach Pentagon Computers; Email System Down for a Fortnight, posted by 3-9 on Sat Aug 8 23:37:08 2015. Microsoft *is* continuing some support for XP at an extremely insanely high price because of those maintenance contracts. It would be cheaper for the taxpayer to just replace every last box with a shiny new top of the line box. Of course, getting that through GSA is its own little nightmare even if the funding were there.The familiar faces of the military-industrial complex have the contracts on maintaining this stuff, so there's no incentive for them to fix it. But it should come as no surprise to anyone that big corporate and government systems are getting easily owned. Just more infrastructure that doesn't matter if it's going to cost money to fix it. |
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