I think you're not giving them enough. They managed to have a glaring security hole to be exploited, but no one bothered to. It took the bunch of degenerates we

I think you're not giving them enough. They managed to have a glaring security hole to be exploited, but no one bothered to. It took the bunch of degenerates we have around today with no respect for the sanctity of someone else's machine for this type of practice to even become a problem. You'll be amazed how many seemingly intractable technical issues aren't due to having been solved at higher layers of abstraction. Nowadays with things like clear cut ownership of post first sale ownership breaking down, we're actually getting bitten by having to try to technically solve problems, previously made tractable by the social consensus between professionals. As a consequence, here we are with a now crappy, pathological Notepad.