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by javcasas 530 days ago
So a coworker sends me this CAD file via email, I open it and my computer gets controlled by a botnet, and the file immediately sends itself to all my outlook contacts.

Nah, that sounds impossible. I'm sure it has never ever happened.

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Opening 3rd party files is one of those risks I was just talking about.

There’s a user moving around in a game, and there’s opening a workplace file these are inherently different kinds of risks. If your building a flappy bird clone you can know exactly how it’s going to interact with the world.