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Same for people using windows 7

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Regardless of us using Linux on our home computers, most businesses and services use Windows machines. Your information is likely still stored on Windows machines elsewhere if you interact with the world at all.

With that in mind, it’s worth being aware of Windows security problems when they come up.

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Got it, stop interacting with the world

I was already mostly doing this so

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What would we do when these happen? What could we do in the moment to change anything?

Join an eventual class action?

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That’s the big “what if” that hangs over everything isn’t it?

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Taking the internet into consideration, I would doubt “most”.

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You’d be surprised. For medical info a lot of that is going to be sorted in windows servers running as either file or sql servers.

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uh, you do know there are exploits in Linux right? Stop pretending that Linux is “virus free”

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Absolutely nobody is saying that.

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Sometimes Mint tells me there are security updates available. Happened just this morning. Updating makes me feel good :)

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And it had the Edge of not installing Candy Crush

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And put edge back in the taskbar…

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And I can do it wherever I want. And my work is in no way interrupted, while the updates go through.

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