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MS's primary concern is to satisfy their stockholders, therefore, big splashy (mis)features that have lots of eye-candy and promises unicorns to customers will win over secure-by-design, properly-engineered products.  I could go on all day with a list of such (mis)features.  Root access by default (until recent versions of Windows(?)), ActiveX, ActiveDirectory, SMB, apps on the cloud, OneDrive, ... and now Recall.  Secure by default means inconvenience, and inconvenience means unhappy customers, and unhappy customers means the bottom line is hurting.  Therefore it ain't gonna happen.  As long as money is the driving factor behind MS, you might as well erase "security" from your dictionary.  It's a pipe dream.

Yeah there are things like SecureBoot and stuff, but honestly, those are just afterthoughts. You're not gonna see security becoming a real focus at MS. They will patch some holes in the cheese grater but there are plenty of others to keep them busy for the foreseeable future.  And every new splashy feature will introduce whole new cheesegraters with tons more holes to plug.  Don't expect the plug-to-hole ratio to decrease.  If anything, pray that it's linear and not exponential, but I'm not even willing to bet on that.

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Sadly, certain Linux companies like RH are also going that way. Systemd being a prime example of the kind of philosophy engendered by MS that inevitably results in monolithic, over-complex software riddled with security holes.  This same philosophy is creeping into mainstream Linux, where convenience always trumps security, and eye-candy and flashy features trump common sense.

Here's to hoping that there will remain a minority who isn't buying into this crap, and who's willing to be the unknown underdog writing sensible software that isn't riddled with security holes.  Alas, I'm rapidly losing hope even in this.  The existence of the modern browser is overshadowing all of that.  In another decade or so, it won't matter anymore whether your OS is 100% secure.  As long as your browser is running, you have an open security hole.  At present it's still possible to limit this somewhat, but in another decade or so, nobody will be able to live without horribly-misdesigned web features that will open huge glaring security holes that will by default bypass all local OS security measures.  You won't be able to turn them off because the entire internet will require them, and you might as well burn your internet router and go back to live in a cave.

Except that the exploits will then come through your aiye-phone, so you'll have to chuck that too.  But even that won't be enough, the exploits will come from AI-enabled clothes and furniture, the only kind that you'll be able to buy unless you're willing to make your own clothes by pleating grass.  (And even then you won't be assured that the grass hasn't been genetically engineered with nanotech to transmit information to the ubiquitous global wireless network.  The OS running the nanotech, of course, will be at least 20 years behind in security patches, so it's probably already hacked. Right in the DNA.  And you won't be able to do anything about it.)

I heard a great time travel joke tomorrow!

I was going to do a pun on economists, but there wasn't enough demand.

Ohoho, you're getting good at this, golinux.

Now the question is, collagen or cellulose?  Or perhaps just natural, like in the old days.

All this talk about food is making me hungry. But being on a desert island with nothing on it, what could I possibly do?

Well I guess I could eat the sand-wich is there...

My grand-uncle's grandfather knew Mount Rushmore before it was carved. Its beauty was unpresidented!

Did you hear about the dog show where a cat got the prize? Oh, the cat-has-trophy!

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship, and produces useful items like wicker baskets.

Imagination without skill produces modern art. 🤣

Come to think of it, Pinocchio was right to be worried about his nose... if it had grown to 12", he wouldn't have had a nose anymore.  It'd have become a foot!

Two goldfish are in a tank. One goldfish says to the other, "Here, you drive, and I'll man the guns!".

Never assume, else you'll make an ASS out of U and ME!

Philosophy is the culmination of the process of knowing less and less about more and more. Eventually, you know nothing about everything.

Science, OTOH, is the quest to know more and more about less and less. Eventually, you know everything about nothing.