Or, for your consideration, could it perhaps be because they don't use crowdstrike?

Best feature windows 3.1 has:

... it doesn't pop up message telling you to upgrade to windows 11.

Windows 3.1 didn’t have the BSOD. It just froze. I remember with Windows NT 4, when we first got the BSOD, being so grateful that Microsoft decided to actually tell us that our computer wasn’t going to recover from the error. Otherwise, we’d just be sitting there, waiting, hoping it would unfreeze itself.

It never did

The fact that they’re running 3.1 is not something to be proud of. They’re probably extremely vulnerable to any other attack.

This... Doesn't make me feel any better about flying Southwest

This is the "can't get a Word Document macro virus because I use the Corel WordPerfect Document type" kind of energy.

One X user suggested that the company switch to Windows XP—it’s also no longer updated, and it can run Windows 3.1 applications via compatibility mode.

Maybe that was a joke, but if anything that would reduce their security. Windows 3.1 and 95 are old enough that they can't even run most stuff from the last two and a half decades, which probably protects them. XP is just new enough, and plenty old enough, to be very risky.

Holy crap, they are serious. I though I was on !programmer_humor@programming.dev for a minute. I sure hope none of those computers are connected to the internet. There's a massive number of vulnerabilities in windows 3.1 and windows 95.

Is this actually confirmed anywhere though? I keep seeing it repeated and the only 'source' is a ?xeet? .

This is both awesome and frightening for many reasons

I’m inclined to believe this post, claiming this article is BS https://mastodon.social/@jplebreton/112825798853315264

Maybe don’t pay a company to install a rootkit on your critical infrastructure?

If they still use Windows 3.1 and it works, then I do have to wonder about the rest of their security setup.

So...Battlestar Galactica scenario?

Windows 3.1? You fancy kids, and your modern operating systems! What's wrong with Windows 1.0???

That makes fuckall sense.

Windows 3.1 not being updated by Microsoft has nothing to do with Crowdstrike rolling out an update to their Falcon Sensor software including a file with 42kB of zeroes.

On Windows 3.1 you probably can't run Falcon Sensor, so in that way it could be related. But it seems way more likely that Southwest Airlines simply didn't use Falcon Sensor on their normal Windows 10 or whatever clients.

There are probably competitors to Crowdstrike, at least some companies would be customers to one of them.

Hang on, if you're using CrowdStrike but not getting the updates, then why are you using it at all?

And they can play JezzBall.

I thought everyone already switched to 3.11