Why would a public kiosk even be running a consumer OS? They should be running a bare-bones OS with EVERYTHING not necessary to perform their intended functions removed. AND be on their own network.
Why are power plant (and other similar) control systems in any way accessible by the internet?
Why are credit-card processor internal networks in any way accessible by the internet?
Answer: because it's what happens by default, and people are too lazy or too ignorant to configure appropriate safeguards.
Because using some bespoke OS costs a fortune and accomplishes nothing.
Windows is more than capable of providing a secure environment for this sort of thing. Wat you're looking at is some shoddy work that was probably done by some contractor years ago.
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Why would a public kiosk even be running a consumer OS? They should be running a bare-bones OS with EVERYTHING not necessary to perform their intended functions removed. AND be on their own network.
Why are power plant (and other similar) control systems in any way accessible by the internet?
Why are credit-card processor internal networks in any way accessible by the internet?
Answer: because it's what happens by default, and people are too lazy or too ignorant to configure appropriate safeguards.
Because using some bespoke OS costs a fortune and accomplishes nothing.
Windows is more than capable of providing a secure environment for this sort of thing. Wat you're looking at is some shoddy work that was probably done by some contractor years ago.