Kevin [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2014-04-16 📝 Original message:On 4/16/2014 4:14 AM, ...

📅 Original date posted:2014-04-16
📝 Original message:On 4/16/2014 4:14 AM, Wladimir wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Today I noticed that even my bank is warning people to not do internet
> banking with Windows XP.
>
> If it is no longer secure enough for online banking it's CERTAINLY not
> secure enough to run a wallet (for a node only it would be ok-ish as
> they have no keys to protect).
>
> Any opinions on what to do here? Just warn and allow the user to
> continue? Redirect them to a 'Windows XP is dangerous' message on
> bitcoin.org <http://bitcoin.org>;? (Microsoft uses
> http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/end-support-help)
>
> The drawback of dropping XP support completely would be that a lot of
> computers (especially in China and Russia etc) are still running XP,
> so this could cause the network to lose nodes.
>
> If you're maintainer of other wallet software: how are you handling this?
> Are you going to drop XP support completely? If so, starting from when?
>
> Regards,
> Wladimir
>
>
>
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I think we should get to the bottom of this. Should we assume that xp
is not secure enough? What is this warning? Who is issuing this warning?


--
Kevin

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