Notepad++ V 7.3.3 – Fix CIA Hacking Notepad++ Issue

Re:Notepad++ V 7.3.3 – Fix CIA Hacking Notepad++ Issue by geofft on Wednesday March 08, 2017 @05:30PM (#13824536)

But that's a social problem, and there are no (purely) technical solutions to social problems. The tree of liberty does not need to be refreshed from time to time with stricter DLL search paths.

If Notepad++ wants to push an update that fixes DLL search paths purely for symbolic reasons, so that all their users are aware of what the CIA is doing by seeing the changelog, that's another thing entirely, and yes, I agree that's useful.

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Re:Notepad++ V 7.3.3 – Fix CIA Hacking Notepad++ Issue by tripzilch on Thursday March 09, 2017 @07:24AM (#13828776)

> If Notepad++ wants to push an update that fixes DLL search paths purely for symbolic reasons, so that all their users are aware of what the CIA is doing by seeing the changelog, that's another thing entirely, and yes, I agree that's useful.

Of course it is. Notepad++ is an international project and these reasons are exactly why I upvoted this story.

(I'm honestly a bit confused as to what other reason one could come up with that is not an insult to Notepad++ developers' intelligence--"There, we fixed the DLL inject-y thing, finally now our users will be safe from CIA hacks"??)

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Re:Notepad++ V 7.3.3 – Fix CIA Hacking Notepad++ Issue by geofft on Thursday March 09, 2017 @08:19AM (#13829023)

Nah, the simple reason is a straightforward, almost-apolitical "Someone found a bug. We were doing something wrong. So we fixed it."

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Re:Notepad++ V 7.3.3 – Fix CIA Hacking Notepad++ Issue by tripzilch on Thursday March 09, 2017 @10:12AM (#13829754)

But that's not what happened (the release note's text was boldly political), I'm not sure what your point is any more :) I think we're in agreement anyway.

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