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by jcims 1665 days ago
Those controls on a proxy are to protect against the careless and the clueless. No competent security team will rely on them to prevent ingress/egress of data or malicious code by skilled individuals.
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Correct - this is an attack on the other side of the airtight hatchway (i.e., you must persuade the user to run wget in a certain fashion and run the resulting exe, and if you don't need to persuade the user you could have done something simpler).

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20170130-00/?p=95...

I am continuously appalled at the gall of calling that hatchway "airtight".