Posted on 09/20/2019 11:22:47 AM PDT by bgill
Microsoft says it'll offer free security updates through the 2020 election in the United States — and in other interested democratic countries with national elections next year — for federally certified voting systems running on soon-to-be-outdated Windows 7 software.
(Excerpt) Read more at spectrumlocalnews.com ...
Yeah, sure......we’ll take care of counting the votes for you ....wink wink....nudge nudge
Four months or so left as a Windows user for me. Been using Windows since 3.1. Don’t think I want to go to Win10.
Hacking these machines sounds like a cool elementary school science project!
MS sent a major upgrade to my Win10 tablet yesterday. It took half of the day to get the download; then, half the evening to install it.
Now, the tablet boots, stays open for a few minutes, gets major crash errors and .net errors, then reboots to more of the same. It has rebooted over a dozen times this morning.
At least with Win7, I can turn off auto-updates, but ‘critical’ updates still get installed. Occasionally, although it has been a while, I had to run System Restore on my Win7 laptop and desktop.
WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG?
At least they're not running on Windows XP !!
At least, I don't think any still run on XP....
Are the vendors and jurisdictions going to recertify their systems after what will be a massive patch? I doubt it.
At no point in history has any government ever wanted its people to be defenseless for any good reason ~ nully's son
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Ah, the Windows 95 days.....
Saw that a lot back then.
[ WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG? ]
I just said the same thing. LOL
[Now, the tablet boots, stays open for a few minutes, gets major crash errors and .net errors, then reboots to more of the same. It has rebooted over a dozen times this morning.]
It has to do that in order to successfully report all of your personal data back to Colossus and Guardian. /only half-joking
It may be the peace of plenty and contentment. Or it may be the peace of unburied dead.
I’ll pass. Don’t want the Daily Signal, Breitbart, etc. blocked by my own computer.
for a long time, i have been under the impression that xfinity automated tellers still use windows 98. apparently the jump to windows 2000 was too much for the credit card companies to stomach...
Oh yeah. Election integrity will be totally beyond question with Microsoft on security.
Don’t laugh
Just got through a training session with a company who has contracted to do the “early voting (fraud)” using Ipads, wifi and Bluetooth.
I approached one of the hosters and asked if these tablets would be running IOS 13 in order to be patched for Bluetooth vulnerabilities. I got a blank stare.
Disclaimer: I am NOT an Apple person.
Yup, voter fraud—so easy a monkey could do it!
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