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by Gigachad 1621 days ago
I wonder if people are forgetting that not long ago, it was acceptable and normal that your word processor could have a bug in it which would crash the entire OS. Or how almost everything was insecure by default.
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Or your email client would open and execute every file attached and it would do so with root permissions.
Nobody found that acceptable except computer programmers.
Well it didn’t really matter what users thought because that’s how it was. Modern programming and software is massively improved and the failure modes are much safer.
I remember those days. It was never acceptable. We just didn’t have any other choice.