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Suppose I connected XP to the internet of 2025. What's the worst that could happen?

Have zero-click zero-days gotten bad nowadays or is it just fearmongering?

Seems to me computer security is an art which people love pretending is an exact science. Tell me the truth.
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security is just a buzzword for cumskins, they dont care that u can just get hacked at any moment and have ur pc taken over, its not in their list of scnearios which are limited to just
>acc hackedd - > use 2fa (phone hacked too, oh well) (bonus pts cus u dont even need to hack phone to get someones 2fa codes)
>computer hacked -> its da j0000z nothing i can do about it security is hard now im gonna makje a blog sayin security is haaaard
>>242968 (OP) 
It would be unusable because no software being commonly used in any meaningful sense is compatible with XP.
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>>242994
You likely wouldnt be able to run it because of hardware limitations as well for CPUs and GPUs. 

XP belongs to a world that no longer exists.
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>>242996
Don't they still make Atomic Pi single board computer chips? Atom netbooks were XP era. Driver issues aside it should work, yes? And there's no reason a browser can't be used that's outdated if the website is also outdated. IRC would still work, older bitorrenting clients might work, older emulators for retro gaming, etc. Web 2.0 not working is like a reminder that you're on a bad site anyway. 

not OP by the way.
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>>243080
>Web 2.0 not working is like a reminder that you're on a bad site anyway.
Damn right!

Surprisingly a lot of good software (latest versions) still run fine on XP: Total Commander, IrfanView, 7-Zip to name a few.

>And there's no reason a browser can't be used that's outdated if the website is also outdated.
Firefox ESR 52.9.0 was the last release for XP. I wonder how vulnerable it is though.
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>>243086
Who is going to attack you and how? Don't use social media, don't buy shit online. The original Internet not everyone bought shit online nor used social media anyway. Even if someone is going to hax.exe you a zoomer ran Internet won't remember how to anyway something tells me. Eventually very outdated software will be harder to harm than the newer shit, like a horseshoe crabs blue blood being immune to viruses on account of being too old to be attacked. 

The real question is: if the source code was leaked how come ReactOS does not use that shit and become the best OS?
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>>243088
>if the source code was leaked how come ReactOS does not use that shit and become the best OS?
That would be illegal to do, on par with piracy.
It would have to be a clandestine fork maintained by Russians, and the feds could shut it down.
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>>243097
>stopping piracy 
Of which is why the pirate bay died and downloading roms from archive.org stopped! 

That aside: You cannot actually prove that they didn't reverse engineer it while actually using the real software. They could just be 'that good', rhetorically. 

If the feds had the power to shut shit down Kali would not be allowed exist nor would Backtrack have been allowed to exist nor LInux in general nor BSD. They'd have banned it as 'pedophile hacker software" already like they did Limewire. I already remember stats on how Linux users were more likely to be pedos, I had a screencap even. It was old banter. What are you hiding being the question if a VPN using HDD/SDD encrytpion having Linux user?  They never even banned Zeronet nor the other Darknets because if anything the feds want to use such odd duck software to catch 'predators'. They'd let ReactOS be a thing as it'd be easily hacked in comparison to Linux and most people would be jailed over copyright infinring as obviously that is their forte if they copyright infringed the very operating  system they are using. Using ReactOS means you're a 'thief', they want to catch them in stings like they do anybody, such as by using the darknets you are a pedo but they let that, indeed, stay up for the sake of stings. 

Russians censors too and the Soviet Union fell a long time ago. They will act just like the USA if they ever get money. It'd just be a matter of time. I won't bat an eye when they take down the library genesis, of which will happen as soon as people start trading with them aka giving them money. Eventually they will cut a deal to stop them from allowing people to copyright infringe if it hit critical mass, of which it eventually will, and they'd not have censored porhub from their own people if they were not censorous spiritually as an example of censor.
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Don't listen to kikes and CIA niggers trying to scare you into using pozzed bloatware, it's perfectly fine.
BTW, post screenshot of this site http://2ip.ru/
I had high hopes for ReactOS but its development is way too slow. By the time it fully clones XP we will have Windows '98 from year 2098. And maybe a colony on Mars.
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>>243107
>you will never play pinball while mining helium 3 on the moon with your fellow indigent pirates that are 'too good' to move to ((( Mars )))
Currently running Windows Vista on an old PC I garbage picked.

Using Mypal (Firefox based) and Superium (Chrome based) for browsing. Only started using Superium because Cloudflare is fucking with Mypal and it cripples and hangs half my browser for like 10-15 mins when I get a verification checkpoint, and sadly alot of imageboards and other websites use that crap now.

https://www.techradar.com/pro/cloudflare-admits-security-tool-is-blocking-some-challenger-browsers
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>>243100
>pirate bay died
Dude, The Bay is alive and well.
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>>243132
I forgot that I was on reddit. Next time rather than use an exclamation point to imply sarcasm  I'll add  /s
>>243130
Good on you. Old hardware works best with old software in my experience.
Win Vista is an OS I skipped entirely but I remember it had pretty colors.

Some might suggest to you a Linux "for old computers" like antiX but I won't: been there, done that, came back to Windows. Whenever I need bash there are MSYS2 and busybox-w32.
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