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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago (3 children)

This post is so true. I work in local government in a state that has TONS of money, yet our systems to control the information for agents to determine if you keep your kids or not is still based on MS-DOS. it's insane to see in 2023

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I really don't want to rely on security through obscurity... MS-DOS was written back when every programmer trusted everything that ran on the computer, security wasn't even an afterthought, and encryption was the sole domain of math nerds, conspiracy theorists, and the nerd equivalent of doomsday preppers because it was "too computationally expensive." Its sole saving grace in terms of security is that it doesn't support multitasking so malware can't run in the background, but you can just target whatever software it's running, instead.

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