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Re:Why does trying to break into the NT 3.1 kernel reboot my... by JohnFen on Thursday September 28, 2023 @10:44AM (#37690259)
Windows deserves a lot of criticism, but let's be honest and fair here... this would have been the case regardless of what OS was dominant.
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Re:Why does trying to break into the NT 3.1 kernel reboot my... by mingus88 on Thursday September 28, 2023 @11:36AM (#37691150)
It would be more fair to criticize the corporate culture at Microsoft in the 90s that led to this situation.

They simply didn't really care. If another OS was dominant, it is easy to argue that fundamental security issues could have been addressed in a better fashion, if management wanted it to be so.

To wit, this is the same era of computing that spawned OpenBSD. You can't say with a straight face that OpenBSD would have been brought down by oversized ping packets or be allowed to accept traffic out of the box like Windows was.

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Re:Why does trying to break into the NT 3.1 kernel reboot my... by mistrial9 on Thursday September 28, 2023 @11:41AM (#37691226)
totally agree -- lived it
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Re:Why does trying to break into the NT 3.1 kernel reboot my... by pcdoodle on Thursday September 28, 2023 @12:05PM (#37691617)
AOL had a fun one in the instant messaging HTML interpreter: <font size=9999999999999999999999999999999999> would bring a system down instantly.
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