• Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 days ago

    I worked in hospital payments, they used gcc 4.4 in 2023 (but renamed 4.8 for some reason), no TLS, code is 30+ years old. Only impacts a bunch of millions of people.

    But having access to the server? No no IT cannot let you have that :-D

    Fascinating and a bit of scary.

    • M0oP0o@mander.xyz
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      2 days ago

      Eh, its only scary if you don’t see how bad a new roll out normally goes. Software is a tool, and people should remember that.

      But yes hospitals are the worst for legacy systems (even outside of the us). I still remember having to relearn how to fix dot matrix printers because the hospital still was using them and had them under contract in 2015.