Thinking more about this--if the SolarWinds debacle teaches us anything, it's that Windows' status as the leading "enterprise-grade" OS is questionable marketing. The OS's own architecture practically begs users to violate the principle of least privilege. https://twitter.com/j_salvo/status/1338600964283109377
Mac, which is UNIX, and Linux, which is UNIX-inspired, both actually treat sandboxing seriously. Then there's Windows, wherein you can almost feel, with every mouse click or keystroke, the developers scorning the very concept of sandboxing.
The fundamental security problem for a computer system is: the probability space of what your system is physically capable of doing is far greater than what you intend for your system to do. This is explained by @max_hodak here: https://maxhodak.com/nonfiction/2020/09/13/buggy-technology-malware.html
Windows exacerbates this problem, for any machine on which it's installed!
This is a good thread, and not just because it corroborates exactly what I’ve been saying. https://twitter.com/swiftonsecurity/status/1343322950477475841
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