On Feb 7, 2005, at 4:53 PM, Nick Arnett wrote:
William T Goodall wrote:
The main human error being at Microsoft, in the design of Windows. An OS deliberately designed to ignore the accumulated wisdom of decades in regard to computer security.
Deliberately???
That might be the correct word. I'm not sure what else could be used to describe how VBS was given total system integration from the beginning, with hooks into (more ore less literally) every portion of the OS. IIRC there were more than a few people, in the pre-95 days, who warned (or tried to warn) MS that they were treading a dangerous path.
But given the other, successful script models that already existed out there, It's hard to fathom why Bill did it as he did.
Though it *is* ironic that BASIC is #1 among hacking (well, cracking) languages. It would seem that Bill is still quite successfully propagating it! :D
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