Car door locks are wafer locks and can be defeated sometimes with a flathead screwdriver.
Security is about "good enough" though so that's usually sufficient.
Most of the worms of the early 2000s worked by exploiting vulnerabilities that Microsoft had already found, patched, and deployed, but users, including giant businesses just didn't install the patches.
Bonzai Buddy and the days of the toolbar didn't happen because Windows is insecure, it happened because at a fundamental level the only difference between spyware and a perfectly valid and runnable program is intent, and an OS has no insight into the user's mind. When you doubleclick on a desktop icon, Windows cannot know whether you totally intend to send most of your precious data to a sketchy server, or whether you have no idea what you are running.
Microsoft is moving more towards preventing users from running whatever they want.
"The user is god and the OS serves them" and "Never let the user run spyware or malicious code" are mutually exclusive, so be careful what you wish for.
> the only difference between spyware and a perfectly valid and runnable program is intent
This is true if you completely ignore that spyware was impossible to remove without specialized removal apps that were funded by volunteers, not Microsoft.
Telling me that locks are pickable is completely irrelevant and avoids the point I was making.
Security is about "good enough" though so that's usually sufficient.
Most of the worms of the early 2000s worked by exploiting vulnerabilities that Microsoft had already found, patched, and deployed, but users, including giant businesses just didn't install the patches.
Bonzai Buddy and the days of the toolbar didn't happen because Windows is insecure, it happened because at a fundamental level the only difference between spyware and a perfectly valid and runnable program is intent, and an OS has no insight into the user's mind. When you doubleclick on a desktop icon, Windows cannot know whether you totally intend to send most of your precious data to a sketchy server, or whether you have no idea what you are running.
Microsoft is moving more towards preventing users from running whatever they want.
"The user is god and the OS serves them" and "Never let the user run spyware or malicious code" are mutually exclusive, so be careful what you wish for.