>I really dislike the embedded VBA "enterprise" Windows/Office world -- it either works, or you can hack it to work (CF the SO answers) or, if neither of those

>I really dislike the embedded VBA "enterprise" Windows/Office world -- it either works, or you can hack it to work (CF the SO answers) or, if neither of those things are true, you are SOL... Hah, I work in aerospace so I deal with a lot of security BS, and once had to address the fact that some IT techs were tracking the maintenance status of some TEMPEST-compliant security gear with a hacked-together VBA "application" that ran in excel over SMB shares. The password for the master database was (heavily) obfuscated but otherwise just hidden in plaintext in the tech-facing side of the application that ended up remaining installed on unprivileged machines that got loaned out to contractors, etc. The CISO agreeed that if the public has access to the status and configuration for your classified processing machines then that's a fairly concerning breach but was confused because the head of IT had told him it was all end-to-end encrypted...