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German railway seeks IT admin to manage MS-DOS and Windows 3.11 systems (www.techspot.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 130 points 9 months ago (33 children)

Legacy hardware and operating systems are battle tested, having been extensively probed and patched during their heyday. The same can be said for software written for these platforms – they have been refined to the point that they can execute their intended tasks without incident. If it is ain't broke, don't fix it. One could also argue that dated platforms are less likely to be targeted by modern cybercriminals. Learning the ins and outs of a legacy system does not make sense when there are so few targets still using them. A hacker would be far better off to master something newer that millions of systems still use.

Tell me you know nothing about cybersecurity without telling me you know nothing about cybersecurity. Wtf is this drivel?

[–] [email protected] 85 points 9 months ago (11 children)

Simple solution: Don't connect it to the Internet. Hackers hate this one weird trick.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 9 months ago (10 children)

And said trick ends when an attacker manages to socially-engineer their way in. (But maybe they’ll drop floppies instead of flash drives around the block this time)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

They could socially engineer their way in regardless of some machine being MSDOS or not. Basically if they can gain physical access to the device, or convince somebody to do something with the device it hardly matters what it was running since it can still be compromised.

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