[miohtama]

They should also have the old wisdom of not connecting critical systems to Internet.

[pbak]

Those were not "critical systems". It was all the desktop computer used for basic office work (email, word processors, etc).

Major mission critical systems are managed by the country's Ministry of the Interior, and haven't had a major hack (yet), as far as is publicly known.

And besides, how are those poor souls gonna connect to Facebook during their mandatory 10 o'clock coffee pause ?

[lanstin]

It is becoming harder and harder to install software on systems without internet connectivity. More and more things assume they can hit maven or npm or random other places at deploy time; even expensive well regarded third party software. At least Golang deploys are ok. (Source: running prod systems with a mandate of no internet connectivity).