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		v5v3 6 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Many ransomware strains will abort if they detect ... Russia, china etc ban windows from any military or sensitive government employee machines. they use their own Linux distros.

chupasaurus 6 months ago [–]

There is a hardened version of Win7 for sensitive machines, probably made of source code Microsoft provided. Edit: Since I had to deal with it in 2011 there's at least Win8.1 version.

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