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RE: Running an experiment
I had an always on win 2k computer connected to cable with no firewall at all for three years straight, no breaches. The real risk factor is the use. If you're going to use IE and have all sorts of client side scripting on by default, and download unsafe programs and files without virus checking them, it won't take you long. If you know what you're doing, you may never get bitten.
[I know, I know.]
was put impeccably into words at DebianDay for me last Saturday, by Knut Yrvin of Trolltech - adults try something once, fail, and then are like "ffs this doesn't work". Children try, fail, and then try again, and succeed - maybe on the second, or even fifth retry. But the thing is that they keep at it and overcome the problems in the end.
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