Not really. Here is what he actually wrote: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20060508-22/?p=31283 https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20060508

Not really. Here is what he actually wrote: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20060508-22/?p=31283 https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20060508-22/?p=31... He doesn't quite come out and say what "being on the other side of this airtight hatchway" means - it appears only in the title. But the post makes it clear what it alludes to: if you're already in a position to execute arbitrary code on the target machine in the security context you want, then you don't need to jump through further hoops, because you're already there.