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I wonder how many people still directly connect to the internet without a gateway. It seems sensational to say “INSTANTLY INFECTED” and then tiny print (in a way that nobody connects to the internet since 1999). But maybe I’m just ignorant to how large a market still use direct connection.

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The takeaway I think they were trying to give was that the same experiments done on a more modern OS does not have these same “instant” infections (they reference having windows 7 under the same conditions without any issue)

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What are they going to write about next, the dangers of unsigned drivers and how easily they infect Windows 98? lol

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I saw someone suggest they connect their switch dock directly to the internet elsewhere on Lemmy. Granted the attack surface for a switch is basically non existent but if people are suggesting that then certainly people are still connecting their other machines directly to their modems/CPEs as well

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That would be Nintendo themselves. The fools recommend port forwarding everything to the Switch.

How to Set Up a Router’s Port Forwarding for a Nintendo Switch Console

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It’s not a DMZ, at Nintendo we say your Switch is now in Donkey Kong Country

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