On 10/13/2017 10:03 AM, Cley Faye wrote:
2017-10-13 14:41 GMT+02:00 DaveB <noreply@tasit.net>:Please let's not have discussions about MS having ended support for XP. There are still an enormous number of machines out there running XP SP3 POS Ready 2009, which MS are still actively supporting. MS most recent XP update (October 2017) added support for TLS 1.1 and TLS 1.2 to XP POS Ready 2009, See Microsoft Secure Blog: http://bit.ly/2ylRGDo
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Why XP is still being hacked all these years after it no longer is supported? There is one reason I know about - ATM machines.After a quick test, I found that the 5.3.7.1 version works fine in XP. The latest 5.4 doesn't, but I'm not sure exactly which subversion started to fail. I can confirm however that it doesn't output any error message, neither on the GUI or on the command line. The splash screen just flash. No error or warning in system logs either. The website should probably be updated (or, if possible, the issue causing a crash fixed instead). I'm tempted to say that losing XP compatibility wasn't done on purpose. I can't provide an answer for known security issues, although common sense says that it's more likely to have some (there's always security issues) and that they might be fixed in more recent versions. However, not talking too much about the end of support of XP, it is itself a large attack vector at this point, so I'm not sure that obscure security issues with libreoffice would be relevant. Beyond the usual "disable script by default" advice, it's most likely safe enough to use in such conditions.
I was shocked a few years ago learning that, in the USA, most ATM money machines are run by using a modified version of Windows XP. There was an article about this and a major ATM manufacturing company paying "big money" to keep getting security patched from Microsoft - upwards of $100,000.
The same article[s] I read talked about making the new ATMs using some version of Linux, for both the security and cost of the license agreements - i.e. Linux seems never had a virus, malware, hack, etc. in the past 20+ years. More stable too.
As for LibreOffice, well the 5.3.7 version is still a very good version to have on your laptop/desktop. I think I have one desktop with an early 5.3.x loaded and one older laptop as well. Actually, this laptop is still running 5.3.6.1. I just keep forgetting to install a newer version for Ubuntu MATE 64-bit 16.04LTS. I forget what was last installed on my Windows systems or partition for the dual booting systems.
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