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by robertlagrant 685 days ago
> Bircher says that the hacked computer was technically up to date: The farmer had only bought the device a year ago, it had Windows 11 installed and also an antivirus program

People think this is sufficient. Microsoft has a giant marketing budget to ensure they never think differently.

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Plenty of POSIX running IoT devices get routinely hacked every year.

Keep writing their software in a mix of Assembly, C and C++, with bad business practices and this will never change, regardless of Windows existence.

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