On 2020-08-30, Ahem A Rivet's Shot  wrote:

> 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.

I'm always amazed at how eagerly people rush to embrace things that
are so obviously Bad Things if you give it the slightest bit of thought.
(But then, I'm still amazed at who is the President of the United States.)

>> 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.

FSVO "stupid".  It made them buckets of money.
And by today's standards, that qualifies as brilliant.

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