Grumpy old geeks, a weekly talk show hosted by Brian Schultmeister and Jason

DeFilippo discussing the finer points of what went wrong on the internet and who's to blame.

Welcome to Grumpy Old Geeks, I'm Jason DeFilippo and I'm Brian Schultmeister.

Exciting stuff. Exciting. What do we got today, Brian?

I forgot to follow up unsurprisingly. The hacked Florida water plant didn't apparently need

to genius to do it. Windows 7 PC is still in use. Shared passwords across the board, they might

as well just have a post-it note up on the monitor saying password is 12345. Yeah, and they use

the remote access program team viewer. So while they weren't able to actually do anything,

this is not exactly a good situation. This is what we've been talking about, desperate need

for infrastructure improvements. This is our shared water supply for Christ's sake. Windows 7 has

been on the outskirts even longer than the Adobe Flash. I don't know why anybody's still using it.

They don't even really security updates anymore, but yeah, the cost of doing business involves

actually updating some stuff, but nobody wants to do that. Oh, no, no, no, not in the budget, Brian,

not in the budget. Let's try again next fiscal corner. Speaking of not in the budget,

Parler is back online after Amazon picked it off the internet. This is the second story that

tells us that they're back online without them actually really being back online.

Okay. Yeah. So an oppressed release that shared with Engaget and several other publications,

the company said it has a new back end that is built on sustainable independent technology and not

reliant on so-called air quotes big tech for its operations. Basically, I mean, it doesn't operate.

So before when they came back online and it was basically just a landing page saying, hey,

we're coming back now that they are there's some more links and stuff, but features like account

creation aren't functional yet. You can also see links to download the mobile app, but tapping

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