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<blockquote data-quote="Zero Knowledge" data-source="post: 1124791" data-attributes="member: 57429">Your assumptions are wrong. You don&#039;t know what data or information hackers have in their possession or how they would target people of interest or what makes you a target in the first place.EternalBlue would still work today if the Shadow Brokers had not gone full disclosure. You have to believe that there are many other similar exploits collected and used by state governments.And cryptobro&#039;s and crptogirlz would be the least likely to download cracks and pirated software. You don&#039;t know what exchanges have been breached or what surveillance, recon and information attackers have.In the end do what you want, but don&#039;t believe or snort the magical fairy dust that everything is &#039;A-OK&#039; with bog standard Windows out of the box. Windows is the reason we have a security industry and forums like this one exist because Windows is inherently insecure without tweaking and security software. Your telling me that a home user can just leave a Windows machine on the open internet and expect nothing to happen if your a target? You do understand governments and criminals have incredibly intelligent people working in teams of 10 to 100&#039;s who&#039;s job it is full time to penetrate and compromise networks and you will just be fine? Please....Yes too much paranoia is bad but there is no excuse in being naive and ignorant about the security landscape.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Zero Knowledge, post: 1124791, member: 57429"] Your assumptions are wrong. You don't know what data or information hackers have in their possession or how they would target people of interest or what makes you a target in the first place. EternalBlue would still work today if the Shadow Brokers had not gone full disclosure. You have to believe that there are many other similar exploits collected and used by state governments. And cryptobro's and crptogirlz would be the least likely to download cracks and pirated software. You don't know what exchanges have been breached or what surveillance, recon and information attackers have. In the end do what you want, but don't believe or snort the magical fairy dust that everything is 'A-OK' with bog standard Windows out of the box. Windows is the reason we have a security industry and forums like this one exist because Windows is inherently insecure without tweaking and security software. Your telling me that a home user can just leave a Windows machine on the open internet and expect nothing to happen if your a target? You do understand governments and criminals have incredibly intelligent people working in teams of 10 to 100's who's job it is full time to penetrate and compromise networks and you will just be fine? Please.... Yes too much paranoia is bad but there is no excuse in being naive and ignorant about the security landscape. [/QUOTE]

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