> As opposed to the Linux security best practices of curl | bash? At the time Windows had far worse vulnerabilities than running untrusted code. You didn’t ne

> As opposed to the Linux security best practices of curl | bash? At the time Windows had far worse vulnerabilities than running untrusted code. You didn’t need to download or run anything, just connecting to the internet without a firewall (which was common in the dial-up era) exposed services that could be exploited by a remote attacker.