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by TheOperator 2050 days ago
NTFS was a file system built from the ground up for security compliance. Microsoft since about Windows XP SP2 has been taking security increasingly seriously, and they were willing to break a lot of software to enforce UAC in the Vista days and got nothing but hate for it.

Still regarding this specific hack the exploit was hidden in Orion's telemetry, showing that Microsoft's new love of telemetry isn't just privacy invading it's security degrading.