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From: Kevin <kevinsisco61784@gmail.com>
To: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Warning message when running wallet in Windows XP (or drop support?)
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 11:12:28 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <534E9DDC.7000502@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+s+GJDdENtqQt1f+L5htuuyPxUxsq0prLQFBLirTjJz0nG1gw@mail.gmail.com>

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On 4/16/2014 4:14 AM, Wladimir wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Today I noticed that even my bank is warning people to not do internet 
> banking with Windows XP.
>
> If it is no longer secure enough for online banking it's CERTAINLY not 
> secure enough to run a wallet (for a node only it would be ok-ish as 
> they have no keys to protect).
>
> Any opinions on what to do here? Just warn and allow the user to 
> continue? Redirect them to a 'Windows XP is dangerous' message on 
> bitcoin.org <http://bitcoin.org>? (Microsoft uses 
> http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/end-support-help)
>
> The drawback of dropping XP support completely would be that a lot of 
> computers (especially in China and Russia etc) are still running XP, 
> so this could cause the network to lose nodes.
>
> If you're maintainer of other wallet software: how are you handling this?
> Are you going to drop XP support completely? If so, starting from when?
>
> Regards,
> Wladimir
>
>
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I think we should get to the bottom of this.  Should we assume that xp 
is not secure enough?  What is this warning?  Who is issuing this warning?


-- 
Kevin


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-04-16 15:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-16  8:14 [Bitcoin-development] Warning message when running wallet in Windows XP (or drop support?) Wladimir
2014-04-16  8:45 ` Melvin Carvalho
2014-04-16  9:41   ` Wladimir
2014-04-16 11:06     ` [Bitcoin-development] mid-term bitcoin security (Re: Warning message when running wallet in Windows XP (or drop support?)) Adam Back
2014-04-18 14:26       ` Jeff Garzik
2014-04-18 14:39       ` Justus Ranvier
2014-04-16 15:12 ` Kevin [this message]
2014-04-16 15:20   ` [Bitcoin-development] Warning message when running wallet in Windows XP (or drop support?) Pieter Wuille
2014-04-16 15:28     ` Wladimir
2014-04-16 16:27       ` Kevin
2014-04-16 16:35         ` Mark Friedenbach
2014-04-16 16:41           ` Chris Williams
2014-04-16 16:44             ` Mark Friedenbach
2014-04-16 16:50               ` Chris Williams
2014-04-16 18:59             ` Kevin
2014-04-16 19:43       ` Adam Back
2014-04-16 20:42     ` Roy Badami
2014-04-16 21:10       ` Laszlo Hanyecz
2014-04-16 21:29         ` Kevin
2014-04-16 21:39           ` Mark Friedenbach
2014-04-16 22:00             ` Pieter Wuille
2014-04-16 15:23   ` Mark Friedenbach
2014-04-16 22:06 ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-04-17  7:39   ` Wladimir
     [not found] ` <CACKnu1prEkZb5L4bGeKfjHtW+1CLmAuYr2-OWq0z5z+SvxhLTg@mail.gmail.com>
2014-04-17  7:27   ` Wladimir

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