Comment on It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes

• CameronDev@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Still sounds like you’d be shipping your data to the cloud, where it can be exfilled from there.

  Would potentially be a great phishing tool, just need to trick someone into putting sensitive data into a precooked excel file, and it gets exfilled.

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  • elvith@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Currently only for business customers which probably use OneDrive or SharePoint anyways, so it’s not that they need that to exfiltrate data. But for a phishing/hacking attempt? There are probably some nice possibilities.

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• magikmw@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That's even worse!

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• echodot@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That’s the worst possible solution to that problem. Why can’t they just develop their own script that’s Turing complete but doesn’t have any system calls?

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  • chillhelm@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Or just use Lua compiled without the system calls. This is done by many video games. İt’s 2025, there is no need to create new domain specific languages.

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    • tux0r@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Or use embedded Lisp, like all the cool kids.

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