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Re:New German law would force ISPs to allow secret service t... by dannyw on Thursday July 09, 2020 @09:43PM (#23787302)
Browsers should phase out and block executable downloads from HTTP sources in 12 months.
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Re:New German law would force ISPs to allow secret service t... by rocqua on Friday July 10, 2020 @10:36AM (#23791850)
They should not.

They should maybe give bigger warnings, but lets not break all of the old web just to protect a few more people against themselves.

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Re:New German law would force ISPs to allow secret service t... by dannyw on Sunday July 12, 2020 @07:36AM (#23810592)
Any untouched, unpatched, unmaintained executables from 2007 should not be ran today, period.
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