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Is that a justification you'll be comfortable giving after the fact? "I know a took a risk with your private and sensitive [business/intimate] data that you trusted me with, and now it has been compromised, but you have to understand, the interface was so beautiful. It was worth it."


If he's using an up-to-date browser and a firewall it feels like the practical risk is relatively low.

What remote exploits are you concerned about in that scenario? Where it would affect 10.9, but not 10.16.

I'm not doubting they exist, but I'm really curious the threat scenario that would apply here, and how likely you think that might be.


Small part of me agrees with you, but then again I see fortune 100 companies, banks and government getting away with similar or worse on regular.

A few weeks ago, I pointed out to one of our clients that they are using vulnerable TLS library (with know exploits) on internet facing service.

They scheduled upgrade for service in august next year.

So honestly op running obsolete version of osx is really drop in the bucket.




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