AOL Discontinues Dial-Up … Wait, What?

Now that’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time… a long time

This is a sentence that won’t make sense to 30 year olds, but there once was a time when we all had a collection of free AOL CDs we could use to connect to the internet, after listening to a series of rather annoying tones.  What won’t make sense to people over 30 is the fact that AOL’s dial-up service is still up and running!  It was just announced that AOL would be discontinuing their dial-up service this September.  According to what Hackaday could find, around 0.2% of the US is still on a dial-up connection; one can only hope they will be able to find reasonable DSL in October.  If not there are apparently some ISPs which still offer dial-up service.  

One has to wonder if using dial up would now actually be a security feature?  Can modern viruses even propagate over a 56K dial-up connection?   It would be handy to know, considering the plethora of new security vulnerabilities listed below the fold.

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