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Cake day: September 27th, 2025

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  • Because best practices for connecting an unsupported operating system to the Internet are to not do it.

    Even if the OS is safe on the day support ends, a critical vulnerability might be found just a few days later. It’s also possible that an exploit has already been found that the bad actor is sitting on it until support ends.

    Even if that doesn’t happen, software developers are going to drop support for the OS and vulnerabilities found in those applications could be used to gain ingress.

    No amount of “being careful using the Internet” is going to prevent hacking if the system has exploits. If you context a fresh install of XP to the Internet, your system will be compromised in a matter of minutes.


  • You can absolutely separate the two. Things don’t suddenly stop being a crime just because the flag is involved. If he had done this anywhere else other than property where it’s specifically illegal to start fires, this would be a different conversation.

    Like, I can’t go into the California woods and start a fire whenever I want, regardless of whether the thing that’s burning is the flag.

    All that being said, this is absolutely the trump administration punishing him for burning the flag, because any other president would have just ignored it.