Question for Wacki or someone else who is smart

[wacki]

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However, Windows could have been programmed so that data in masked text boxes is not available to other programs. I see no reason to allow this to be the case.

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This is (basically) called user permissions. Unix/Linux has it and Windows XP doesn't. Longhorn is supposed to have it. On the other hand, if a hacker is good enough to get superuser or root access, then permissions don't matter.