📅 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
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book
> "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their
> applications. Written by three acclaimed leaders in the field,
> this first edition is now available. Download your free book today!
> http://p.sf.net/sfu/NeoTech
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Bitcoin-development mailing list
> Bitcoin-development at lists.sourceforge.net
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
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
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/attachments/20140416/25e492a7/attachment.html>;
Kevin [ARCHIVE] /
npub1vd…sc3yk
2023-06-07 15:18:40
in reply to nevent1q…0lex
Author Public Key
npub1vdngmkaq73c0aq4fp7xgzjjtp9l66l2t50j7ma242lcp8rleuvls8sc3ykPublished at
2023-06-07 15:18:40Event JSON
{
"id": "d8523dc0cbfb1f41cdc48270d9ef9cd91f5c4ceb0936f50d138a40edf1cae36e",
"pubkey": "63668ddba0f470fe82a90f8c814a4b097fad7d4ba3e5edf55557f0138ff9e33f",
"created_at": 1686151120,
"kind": 1,
"tags": [
[
"e",
"153e54c1cd9c6f756e6009be5152d0197d3421612e96aadb6f6ad32a1c0af88b",
"",
"root"
],
[
"e",
"73ce8a48b56530b2c7053c44b56612369249d6eaa6cc6298b4c124ac7fcd283f",
"",
"reply"
],
[
"p",
"30217b018a47b99ed4c20399b44b02f70ec4f58ed77a2814a563fa28322ef722"
]
],
"content": "📅 Original date posted:2014-04-16\n📝 Original message:On 4/16/2014 4:14 AM, Wladimir wrote:\n\u003e Hello,\n\u003e\n\u003e Today I noticed that even my bank is warning people to not do internet \n\u003e banking with Windows XP.\n\u003e\n\u003e If it is no longer secure enough for online banking it's CERTAINLY not \n\u003e secure enough to run a wallet (for a node only it would be ok-ish as \n\u003e they have no keys to protect).\n\u003e\n\u003e Any opinions on what to do here? Just warn and allow the user to \n\u003e continue? Redirect them to a 'Windows XP is dangerous' message on \n\u003e bitcoin.org \u003chttp://bitcoin.org\u003e? (Microsoft uses \n\u003e http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/end-support-help)\n\u003e\n\u003e The drawback of dropping XP support completely would be that a lot of \n\u003e computers (especially in China and Russia etc) are still running XP, \n\u003e so this could cause the network to lose nodes.\n\u003e\n\u003e If you're maintainer of other wallet software: how are you handling this?\n\u003e Are you going to drop XP support completely? If so, starting from when?\n\u003e\n\u003e Regards,\n\u003e Wladimir\n\u003e\n\u003e\n\u003e\n\u003e ------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\u003e Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book\n\u003e \"Graph Databases\" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their\n\u003e applications. Written by three acclaimed leaders in the field,\n\u003e this first edition is now available. Download your free book today!\n\u003e http://p.sf.net/sfu/NeoTech\n\u003e\n\u003e\n\u003e _______________________________________________\n\u003e Bitcoin-development mailing list\n\u003e Bitcoin-development at lists.sourceforge.net\n\u003e https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development\nI think we should get to the bottom of this. Should we assume that xp \nis not secure enough? What is this warning? Who is issuing this warning?\n\n\n-- \nKevin\n\n-------------- next part --------------\nAn HTML attachment was scrubbed...\nURL: \u003chttp://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/attachments/20140416/25e492a7/attachment.html\u003e",
"sig": "eb5845a9134af534c7a0c7f83fd1e4fd6b0a1c904751c661d5e8b4f78843287c5a010dcb5f08f5c0781c8983542fb564b4be1551b5e974cdcd13621b3f55234e"
}