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by bentcorner 1665 days ago
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...

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