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I think it should become a Windows/Microsoft issue, to be honest. A good example is the recent Zoom vulnerability, the software made it possible to perform cert
by e_proxus 7y ago
I think it should become a Windows/Microsoft issue, to be honest. A good example is the recent Zoom vulnerability, the software made it possible to perform certain exploits on the user and operating system, so Apple stepped in and disabled the exploit. In this case, I think Microsoft should do the same in order to protect their users. My guess would be that the install base of Steam on Windows is as least on par with Zoom on macOS, if not many times larger.
In the end, Microsoft will get bad reputation for having an insecure OS (not to even mention Valve here, and in the long run it will hurt them as same as it did Adobe with their Flash stubbornness).
- yellowapple 7y agoTrue; it'd be really nice if Microsoft started deprecating running non-essential things under the SYSTEM user. Windows could/should emulate the OpenBSD strategy of running services/daemons as unprivileged users dedicated to those services instead of as root. Windows does support this functionality, and ultimately Valve's to blame for not using it, but you're right that Microsoft should be more proactive in encouraging good design and discouraging bad design.