To: Nick Andre
  Re: Re: BBS Software Recommendations
  By: Nick Andre to T.J. Mcmillen on Sat Nov 23 2024 11:20 am

 >
 > I wish I kept all the hilarious messages from 2002 telling me I was going to
 > be "hacked tomorrow" for running XP let alone running on port 23.
 >
 > Tomorrow never came...
 >


well there WERE exploits released to get into windows xp and windows 7 easily.
luckily if you kept it updating and didn't disable anything that wasn't possible or atleast harder for attackers.  people were holding onto xp for so long so microsoft kept sending some updates for quite some time.
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