Re: Pays NOT to be running Windows 10
Maybe there is some obscurity in having a pain the ass, "moving conveyor belt OS" like Windows 10, but boy, it's a complete fcuker to stay at the leading edge.
For every 1 hour of work, it feels like 10 hours of notifications/distractions, to make sure everything is current. It seems aimed at keeping 'non jobs' busy.
Maybe there is something to be said to running Insider Builds, Fast Ring, Slow Ring even it's the equivalent of Swiss Cheese (in terms of holes), you and the hackers are both running runtimes that has seen the same amount of daylight, leveling the field somewhat.
If you want real obscurity though, it seems that choosing a non standard setup (in terms of Firewalls/Routers), Linux based OSs that few people use is probably the best approach, because its just not economical for either the NSA or Hackers to bother targeting/hacking it, until it hits the "McDonalds" mainstream.
Funding a hacking project always has to be justified, in terms of cost/benefits, even if they do have unlimited deep pockets and do some projects at such scale, most "normal folk" would find incredulous i.e. Massive Data Centres next to Data Centres to monitor social media.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
