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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: suaspontemark 🐝  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: This piece was decent - future earnings estimates
Date: 02/19/26 12:20 PM
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While there is a snarky, "I'll show those big software companies" case for one copy/many installations of software (and that's harder all the time) one of the reasons South Korea got hacked so brutally about a dozen years ago was there were an awful lot of unregistered, older, copied, bogus installations of Windows that were easy to exploit.

This is a very "pick up nickels in front of the steamroller" thing. But the bad guys in cybersecurity are very, very good, and there are an awful lot of nation-states that will run rampant on those who are actively choosing to be the low hanging fruit. Which is what happens when you run old, dodgy software.
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This community has written 21,448 posts about Berkshire Hathaway. The article-length ones it recommended most:
BRK: Why Not XOM? · 62 recs · 2024
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