Because best practices for connecting an unsupported operating system to the Internet are to not do it.
Even if the OS is safe on the day support ends, a critical vulnerability might be found just a few days later. It’s also possible that an exploit has already been found that the bad actor is sitting on it until support ends.
Even if that doesn’t happen, software developers are going to drop support for the OS and vulnerabilities found in those applications could be used to gain ingress.
No amount of “being careful using the Internet” is going to prevent hacking if the system has exploits. If you context a fresh install of XP to the Internet, your system will be compromised in a matter of minutes.
You think windows 10 just becomes unsafe because it stops getting security updates?
Lol.
Not immediately, no, but saying you can safely continue using it if you follow Internet use best practices is flat out wrong.
Is it? How?
Because best practices for connecting an unsupported operating system to the Internet are to not do it.
Even if the OS is safe on the day support ends, a critical vulnerability might be found just a few days later. It’s also possible that an exploit has already been found that the bad actor is sitting on it until support ends.
Even if that doesn’t happen, software developers are going to drop support for the OS and vulnerabilities found in those applications could be used to gain ingress.
No amount of “being careful using the Internet” is going to prevent hacking if the system has exploits. If you context a fresh install of XP to the Internet, your system will be compromised in a matter of minutes.