[Info-vax] BridgeWorks

Simon Clubley clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP
Mon Jul 22 08:12:48 EDT 2024


On 2024-07-21, Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
> On 7/20/2024 11:31 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>> On Sat, 20 Jul 2024 16:58:09 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>
>>> Interesting. I wonder if it is a retro thing or there are still VB6
>>> applications out there that need to be maintained.
>>
>> Would you entrust mission-critical business functions to obsolete,
>> unsupported software?
>>
>
> Would you entrust mission-critical business functions to today's supported 
> software?  ???CloudStrike???
>
> Don't understand why anyone would question something that has been running 
> successfully for years with no problems ...
>

TLS 1.0 was running just fine for many years before advances declared
it to be obsolete and insecure.

Same for MD5 and SHA-1.

Same for Intel processors until the side-channel attacks emerged.

Any comments David ? :-)

Simon.

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