>> Heheh. These are the people who thought "hey, let's make it so that
>> every home user has full admin rights by default". Yes, I'm sure they
>> know a thing or two about security. ;-)
>
> Um...
>
> Wrong perspective. Development was actually from CP/M's "access control?
> just lock the f*** room door" concept to there.

Yes. And it has taken them a spectacularly long time to figure out that 
this model is ineffective today.

(Apparently this is the company that thought that networks were just a 
"fad" that would go away after a while...)

> Oh, and didn't they go for "hey, let's make it so that every home user
> does /not/ have full admin rights by default" when they introduced
> Vista?

Yes.

They didn't do it in Windows 2000, they didn't do it in Windows XP, only 
in Windows Vista did they *finally* get it right.

Granted, backwards compatibility didn't help them at all. But I'm pretty 
sure there are better solutions than what they actually came up with. 
The company's goals seem to be to promote a /sense/ of security rather 
than actually /being/ secure.

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