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They’re still running. Whirring away. Connected to the Internet. Owners, of older computers running on Microsoft platforms, please check your operating system versions. Especially businesses. If you find Windows 7 or Windows 8.1, take note! Those operating systems are considered EOL, or end-of-life. The only valid Microsoft Windows non-server (regular computer) operating system versions are Windows 10 and Windows 11. So these older ones – they’re, essentially, retired. On the heralded shelf of progress Windows […]

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Category 5. (Not a hurricane)Part 2 (Information security) What kinda nonsense is this woman sputtering? Governmentese. ECCN stands for export control classification number; it’s used in export compliance. The base ECCN is always 5 characters. The format: A category in the first character (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, or 9)A product group in the second character (A, B, C, D, or E)Numbers in the last 3 spots The designation EAR99 means

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