• snek_boi@lemmy.ml
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    3 years ago

    Ouch. Microsoft used to sue people instead of fixing bugs? What a way of guaranteeing insecurity in the long run!

    I wonder if the whole “Microsoft moved all font parsing out of the kernel” as well as the “macOS moved a substantial portion of its networking stack - the transport layer- from the kernel into user space” happened after the “years [in which] internet explorer was so tightly integrated into windows”. You could both be right. The quote of his actually supports your point: “Windows and Mac kernels are somewhat similar too, in that they are also large and bloated kernels. […] Windows has historically been plagued by vulnerabilities within its font parsing code.”

    So what I understand is that you’re right that it’s funny to think that macOS and Windows were more sandboxed than Linux. Based on his quote, it appears as if this has recently changed, at least in the examples given and the general “systemic approach” to security.