View Single Post
Old 04-04-2024, 04:02 PM   #68
Quoth
Still reading
Quoth ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Quoth ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Quoth ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Quoth ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Quoth ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Quoth ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Quoth ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Quoth ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Quoth ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Quoth ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Quoth ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
Quoth's Avatar
 
Posts: 14,453
Karma: 107078855
Join Date: Jun 2017
Location: Ireland
Device: All 4 Kinds: epub eink, Kindle, android eink, NxtPaper
Quote:
Originally Posted by twowheels View Post
Actually, relying on file extensions was always a bad idea and can be a security risk -- it's a holdover from earlier days when computers weren't as fast (easier to determine than actually opening the file to find out) and people weren't as concerned about computer security.
It's not to do with computer speed, but the design of CP/M in 1976, which the "bought in DOS" by MS had copied. Hiding the ending makes it worse.
Quoth is offline   Reply With Quote