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by josephcsible 968 days ago
> It should still be able to run an up to date web browser though, right?

For a while, yes, but the browser being up-to-date doesn't make an EOL OS safe to expose to the Internet.

> If one is that concerned about someone exploiting an OS level security flaw to exfiltrate their online banking credentials (wildly unlikely), they should just be doing that stuff in a VM or similarly isolated environment anyways.

Just doing sensitive stuff in a VM isn't good protection at all, since a malicious host can trivially compromise the guest.