That's all without clicking a single hot link.

Just a fun, somewhat terrifying read

  • whereisk@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

    A bit clickbaity…

    configured it to be fully exposed with no firewall and no anti-virus software

    And I’m also assuming this was then exposed directly to the internet like a server, not behind a NAT or anything like that.

    I mean you’re setting up a 20 yo unpatched consumer lever OS to fail for the giggles and you kneecap it on top of it - which is fine, but hardly surprising.

    • HexadecimalSky@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 months ago

      U.S. military doesn’t run standard versions of Windows and many if not most military terminals don’t connect to World Wide Web.

      Not perfect but if it’s only connectd to Army intranet, might not be vulnerable?