On Sat, 29 Aug 2020 20:30:21 -0400
"Mayayana"  wrote:

> "Ahem A Rivet's Shot"  wrote
>
> | >    That kind of thing. I though MS were brilliant with
> | > ActiveX. They just didn't see the security problems
> | > coming.
> |
> | Whereas some of us saw ActiveX for the first time and shook our
> | heads in sorrow because it looked like the most stupid idea we'd seen
> since
> | email clients that allowed attachments to execute.
> |
>
>   You really thought that back then?

 On sight, wrt to the executable email attachments it wasn't long
before it happened that I was telling people that nobody would be stupid
enough to do it.

> It's what allowed
> them to beat Netscape. For years it was a brilliant
> design. It still is. It's just not safe.

 It's a stupid design because it cannot be safe.

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