[This guy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uSVVCmOH5w) connects to the web on an xp version that is being runned on vm. How can they get so much access to the computer, why didn’t this happened so eassily back in the day, and why newer os are less likely to run into those problems?
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I worked in a factory’s IT department for a few years so I have direct experience with this. For starters, windows XP is still supported. Microsoft publicly stopped supporting it around 2005-2007 but it’s support simply was sent to a separate devision if Microsoft that handles industrial computing.They still have small upgrades today.
It actually has very few network security issues since it has been poked and proded for over twenty years and any vulnerabilities are either patched or known and secured.
Windows XP is used in everything from factories, air traffic control centers and train station terminals. It’s cheap, cost effective, easy to repair and replace and well documented. The biggest advantage of the OS is that you can restore it from backup very easily and swap out the entire client in minutes.
Working at a printing factory I often went to a broken station with a refurbished unit and swapped the entire station out in minutes. As soon as the new device hit the network the network admin. took over. I would then take damaged unit back to the IT workshop and rebuilt it and stored it with about twenty other spare units. At the industrial level most IT work is break/fix and refurbishing old tech.
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