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Comment Surprising (Score 1) 246

by product_bucket on Friday January 17, 2014 @10:24PM (#45994945) Attached to: Microsoft Quietly Fixes Windows XP Resource Hog Problem

Whilst I'm pleased to see this fix I'm surprised they didn't just leave it. What business sense is there in fixing soon-to-be-obsolete products, especially when takeup of the new ones is lower than expected?

Submission + - "Internet of Things" is a viable spam delivery platform

Submitted by product_bucket on Friday January 17, 2014 @09:32PM

product_bucket writes: Security consultancy Proofpoint has provided an insight [proofpoint.com] into the real world capabilities of net connected domestic goods, and how they could be subverted. The problems identified with the current implementation techniques of some internet connected appliances could (maybe should?) force a paradigm shift in the way many people treat common internet capable devices.

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