I'm familiar with the history of that but I also 75% blame microsoft for having a windows default setting to execute as the current user, any .exe binary that's

I'm familiar with the history of that but I also 75% blame microsoft for having a windows default setting to execute as the current user, any .exe binary that's specified in the autorun.inf file in the root of a CD or DVD-ROM, when inserted into the computer (in the windows 98SE/millennium/2000 era). same issue that was still biting the US military in the ass 6, 7, 8 years later they learned that any usb flash drive inserted into a computer would autorun the binaries on it, and they resorted to putting hot glue into the USB ports of desktop PCs as a stopgap measure.