Windows ME: Using Antiquated Software to Learn About Security

Andy Luse, Amjad Al Marzooq, Jim Burkman · IEEE Potentials · 2018

This article features a classroom project that leverages the idea of “security through antiquity” (Hruska, 2008) by analyzing the effects of vulnerability assessment tools on successive versions of the Windows operating system (OS) in a classroom setting. The results provide anecdotal evidence of high student interest and involvement with the older technology and also show important differences between the generations of Windows OSs.

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