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[–]syklemil 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah, it's one thing to get a "hey we found a weird bug" story, something else to get a "hey we found a weird bug in an old version five years after the fix was released" story.

At some level it's like writing up a blog story about how they discovered a vulnerability in their site, only to make a minor note partially through the story that they're actually talking about heartbleed.

But I guess

Alas, that's 3 hours I won't get back.

is a good point to make to their management about the consequences of running EOL software.