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I didn't forget. That is not a requirement for most users. The whole idea of forcing people to update is that we don't want them to be vulnerable, so that their machines aren't used against us. The users commonly don't suffer negative effects from being exploited.



Ransomware is big enough news that I don't think that's true even for very non-technical users.




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