AKA "security by obsolescence". What a dangerous delusion or is it junk journalism by BBC!
Maybe many of those believing in and applying cyber security by antiquity are of little relevance/value to cyber hackers or are no targets of criminals anyway.
Perhaps this "top cybersecurity expert" is antiquity himself or herself and nobody bothers anymore to hack him or her! 😊
Why are militaries still using old software? Perhaps, they have too much old software to be replaced.
Notice the article below is only about the long obsolete email client software Eudora (discontinued in 2006)!
"A top cybersecurity expert ran obsolete email software for years because hackers had stopped bothering with it. The strategy is called “security by antiquity,” and militaries swear by it too."
"... "The vast majority of attackers are criminals trying to make money and it doesn't make any sense for them to target systems being run by 50 people," [the cybersecurity expert] explains. ..." Maybe this cybersecurity expert from Finland is poor! 😊
'Security by antiquity': Why older tech is sometimes safer from hackers "The fear of hacking has made some people turn to other forms of technology ignored by new generations of cyber criminals."
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