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  Microsoft's blind spot
Time: 01:27 EST/06:27 GMT | News Source: CNET | Posted By: Todd Richardson

Over the years, many in the computer industry have found it all too easy to ignore security. It usually doesn't show up in product demos. Microsoft, in particular, has repeatedly plunged forward with a seductively simple yet dangerously powerful idea. In academia it's called "procedural attachment"--letting a program appear in place of data. Why do this? In a nutshell, programs are more versatile than data. So Microsoft built ActiveX, a technique within Windows for automatically downloading and executing arbitrary programs. And Microsoft put macros into its word processor, along with a technique for automatically executing a macro as soon as a document is opened. And Microsoft made it easy for an e-mail script to do almost anything

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