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Managements making uneducated decisions everywhere. That way many stupid errors get reintroduced each day. Oh? Our network is vulnerable because the hardware has built in backdoors? So put that stuff into a warehouse in case we need it. Today: Oh we got some spare hardware, let's use it, that way we save money!
I don't know the answer to the first question, except maybe what Sean said and/or that the legacy systems are integrated with other systems, workflows, etc. they use and it would be very expensive and possibly error-prone to upgrade them.
Whether it's wrong to take advantage of a company is a matter of opinion, but IMO, companies are inherently evil and profiteering and exploit anyone and everything they can, including you, and as such, they have more than enough money, so it's not wrong to take advantage of/cheat them.
I can only speak for this gilded shithole country I live in, but there is likely some technical or regulatory reason they have to keep older systems online, I will give you a couple of examples - I used to do work for a hospital, they often had to connect and collect data from the state for benefits and stuff, and we had to keep a PC with a dial-up modem running up until around 2016 or so because it was the only way they could connect to the state's databases...also, there is a law that all mobile phones have to put all emergency/911 calls through, even if there is no service active...an older phone might not have a radio that connects to modern cell networks so maybe the older ones still need to exist, but anyway no do what you gotta
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