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As long as you 1. Don’t go looking for trouble and 2. Don’t go out of your way to intentionally disable security features and *set the damn machine to be DMZ’d*, you’ll be fine putting an old machine on the network. Modern networking ensures it isn’t as vulnerable as when we rawdogged the internet back in the good ‘ol days. So please. Stop screaming at people when they show an XP box doing networking things. Thank you.

In a move that's sure to piss off a certain segment of people hardcore...

@dalias@hachyderm.io DMZ in this case being “let this machine receive ALL of the traffic”. Most retro systems are protected at a basic level by NAT so things on the internet can’t specifically hit that system, modern routers stop it.