MS Paint Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Re:MS Paint Remote Code Execution Vulnerability by bombcar on Thursday November 05, 2026 @08:39PM (#50387077)

Just like any text editor is doomed to become either Emacs or Word, so any image editor is doomed to become Photoshop.

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Re:MS Paint Remote Code Execution Vulnerability by wilkystyle on Thursday November 05, 2026 @09:27PM (#50387385)

Too true. I gave up trying to fight it years ago and now write all my documents in Emacs and edit my code with Microsoft Word.

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Re:MS Paint Remote Code Execution Vulnerability by jodrellblank on Thursday November 05, 2026 @11:24PM (#50388172)

Did you miss the chance to edit your code with MS Paint as your IDE?

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=mspaint+ide

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Re:MS Paint Remote Code Execution Vulnerability by echion on Thursday November 05, 2026 @11:04PM (#50388024)

Reminds me of Zawinski's Law of Software Envelopment[^1,2]: "Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can."

[^1]: https://lawsofsoftwareengineering.com/laws/zawinskis-law/

[^2]: https://www.jwz.org/hacks/

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Re:MS Paint Remote Code Execution Vulnerability by sam345 on Friday November 06, 2026 @12:30AM (#50388571)

Except Vim of course.

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Re:MS Paint Remote Code Execution Vulnerability by eru on Friday November 06, 2026 @07:11AM (#50391436)

Well, there's vile for you.

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