Comment Re:Spamming daemon packed inside ELF binary (Score 2) 180
modern windows malware still has a lot to do with insecure design, but not much to do with the stupidity of microsoft developers. stupidity of their managers, perhaps, but not their devs.
the problem is that microsoft management believes that their users are idiots and incapable of understanding or practicing even basic security. whether they are correct or not is irrelevant - either way, that belief leads to them choosing to design for an idiot user's convenience rather than for a normally intelligent user's security.
they don't make insecure software because they're too stupid to do otherwise. they do it because they *choose* to, because they believe their users are too stupid to cope with anything better.
rather than lift their dumber users up to a higher level of understanding and safer practices (i.e. by requiring it in their software design), they dumb things down so that even smarter users find it difficult or impossible to run a secure system. in doing this, microsoft are doing ALL of their users, both dumb and smart, an enormous dis-service. IMO, constituting gross negligence.