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> Aside from taking it out of SYSTEM scope(!) Windows does all kind of random things at SYSTEM scope and maybe for most of it, it is a terrible idea; yet they
by temac 5y ago
> Aside from taking it out of SYSTEM scope(!)
Windows does all kind of random things at SYSTEM scope and maybe for most of it, it is a terrible idea; yet they think that somehow VBS will save the world, and do not give a shit about the obvious existing shortcomings of their stack... At one point a virus could exploit a bug in the MS Defender AV engine and ironically execute under SYSTEM by just being scanned (!!) and they reacted by introducing MP_FORCE_USE_SANDBOX, however it seems that instead of quickly extending the usage of that sandbox to every user they... now just spawn the worker process (if the env var is there) but it does not do anything anymore :/
I get that engineers are attracted to working on new shinny things, but at one point not maintaining the old stuff (or even just properly removing!) under the excuse that the new unfinished one is more important is just lack of vaguely competent project management, and overall lack of professionalism. Even maybe of individual contributors: if you do not push strongly to get the shit cleaned-up in priority, you are as guilty as the people directing you to work on other (likely soon to be deprecated and unmaintained too) things.
- hulitu 5y agoNot wanting to defend MS employees here, but maybe they are paid based on the new shiny things they produce, not based on fixing old stuff. KPI forever
- jcpham2 5y agoI found this funny because a large portion of my job has morphed into designing reports for different departments to measure performance. It boils down to a lot of binary yes/no formulas in excel and measuring those yes/no as a performance indicator. KPI forever indeed. I never expected as a sysadmin I’d be creating excel reports to measure the performance of others.
- jeffbee 5y agoAnd when you say "at one point" you mean as recently as today. https://twitter.com/taviso/status/1412809764363411457 https://twitter.com/taviso/status/1412809764363411457
- temac 5y agoLol this is getting ridiculous. I don't know why they stopped working on their Defender architecture, the sandbox seemed a good idea. Maybe they have been told to work on Win11 VBS processor requirement wankery instead, leaving that class of problems unfixed for years.