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Remember when Notepad was just… Notepad? A simple text editor nobody asked to be modernized?

Yeah, Microsoft didn’t care either. They bolted on Markdown support and AI features anyway. And now we’ve got CVE-2026-20841. Remote code execution. Via a text file. This is the kind of thing that makes you go “oh come on, really?”

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[–] khapyman@sopuli.xyz 12 points 2 days ago (2 children)

That's pretty much the problem. You know how to work around the issue. I know how to work around the issue. Institutional knowledge doesn't and just opens the application just like they've always done. I resolved this one by associating .csv files with Notepad++ company wide. Now this is a mandated change so they'll grumble and get on track.

The real issue I have with all this is changing data without consent. It's like the new Notepad is malware all by itself, doesn't even need remote exploits.

And hello fellow Linux user :)

[–] vala@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Wasn't notepad++ just compromised in a pretty major way?

I understood that it wasn't notepad++ software itself, but some foreign actor did some high level shit on the update channels of their platform.

It has always been the problem with Micro$oft products. You don't use them the way you want or need to. You use them the way Micro$oft envisioned it.