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by dannyw 2169 days ago
Browsers should phase out and block executable downloads from HTTP sources in 12 months.
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They should not.

They should maybe give bigger warnings, but lets not break all of the old web just to protect a few more people against themselves.

Any untouched, unpatched, unmaintained executables from 2007 should not be ran today, period.