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SE Radio 559: Ross Anderson on Software Obsolescence

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The Risks of Obsolete Software

When a software gets obsolete, does that mean nothing works or can it still be used with risks? And if you could just maybe talk a little bit about the risks. I think like you rightly said, it's a maze and there's a lot of things that need to be tied up and maintained. Well, the question is whether the artifact that you're trying to maintain was designed so that it would have a known death date or whether it would merely degrade.

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