"I was such an idiot once..."
Most of us were. Those who learnt programming in DOS and Windows 2.x/3.x didn't have to care about permissions and privileges. Just as soon I got a machine with NT4 I understood my code had issues, and old habits had to be forgotten to write better code.
I like my job, and believe keeping my skills and knowledge up to date is essential. It looks other think it just pays the bills, and have to deliver what is asked them with the minimal effort. Changing habits and writing a little more code to cope with newer environments and requirements it's too much for them - and their managers. Many of them work for or sold their code to companies too big for MS to ignore them and enforce stricter rules and kill non-compliant applications.
Anyway this vulnerability looks rooted again in something needed to make kernel calls faster - the bane of every operating system...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
