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Well, they wrote and ran a lot of software with outrageous bugs, especially writing out of array bounds. But likely a biggie difference is that the attack surf
by graycat 9y ago
Well, they wrote and ran a lot of
software with outrageous bugs,
especially writing out of array bounds.
But likely a biggie difference is
that the attack surface was smaller.
Also it may be that some of what Microsoft is still struggling with is
being able still to have Windows run
old software that thinks it's just fine to
read files from nearly anywhere, write lots of files it should have no business writing, run other programs, etc.
E.g., on Windows, I can download and install software, e.g., a new version of Firefox. That writes to my boot drive. What the heck security door did that software pass through?
I'd like to know the details of Windows security, but so far I've never seen any good descriptions or documentation.
I'm interested in Windows security because Windows is the source of
the computing for my startup.
Otherwise, and in general, I hope
that Microsoft gets the security
problems fixed.