[diggan]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the conclusion from that video seems to be that it's OK to connect Win98 to the internet in 2024, as nothing really happened?

I expected the installation to be infected very quickly, but seems it just got a bunch of port scans and not much more than that.

[jabroni_salad]

For awhile mirai botnet was able to infect anything using upnp and a default credential within 20 minutes of it being connected.

These days ISPs are better about shutting that kind of thing down. They monitor for botnet activity in their networks and their modem/router gateway combo devices are a lot more robust than they were in the 00's. It is also more acceptable now than it was to ship routers with upnp turned off by default, which helps A LOT.

[thomastjeffery]

Unfortunately, that also tends to come with the inability to turn upnp (or any port forwarding whatsoever) back on.

For example, I'm paying double the local market rate of a 1gbit connection for ~150-300mbit connection, and I can't even change my WiFi password or SSID. That's just how everyone expects renting to be these days. It's not worth the hassle to fight it, so I just hack around with tailnet instead.

[bilekas]

I was expecting it to be worse to be honest, but thinking rationally about it, how many people would be targeting win9x these days ?

Security by 'obsolete' !