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Re:MS Paint Remote Code Execution Vulnerability by onei on Friday November 06, 2026 @05:15AM (#50390478)
Some years ago, I ended up on a call with a support team guy, helping him under some parts of a system I worked on. He shared his screen, started drawing diagrams. It took me a whole 10 minutes to realise it was in paint, he was just that good at using it.

Turns out paint was the thing almost every customer had installed/had access to, so he worked to the lowest common denominator and got really good at using it. I guess now he'll need to find a new tool to astonish devs with.

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Re:MS Paint Remote Code Execution Vulnerability by ethbr1 on Friday November 06, 2026 @06:55AM (#50391289)
If you're in support across multiple customers, especially in regulated industries, you learn to rely on the minimum common denominator, which usually means OS utils.

And at the end of the day $2 and $2000 screwdrivers are both still screwdrivers.

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Re:MS Paint Remote Code Execution Vulnerability by ndsipa_pomu on Saturday November 07, 2026 @06:11AM (#50403506)
This is also why knowing the basics of "vi" is so useful on Linux/unix systems
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Re:MS Paint Remote Code Execution Vulnerability by partomniscient on Saturday November 07, 2026 @07:23AM (#50403938)
...especially knowing how to save/exit without saving/quit, when it automatically opens up for some reason.
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