Pricing laziness

Laziness is priced in When I was a kid, playing with Windows 3.11, I quickly found out that network drive sharing was on by default. This means that anyone on your local network could read almost any file in your C: drive unless you did something about it. And also, all of your passwords - including the user and password of your Internet connection - were saved into a single file that was poorly encrypted, so that meant that anyone in your local network, with a silly little program that would crack that file in minutes, could have all of your passwords. But I wasn't "a hacker" knowing this anymore than a person would be a thief if they found some money on the ground. Why would the premier operating system on the planet be this dumb? Well, the answer was simple: people didn't really do local networks in the age of the modem, people didn't read the technical documentation of operating systems like I did and people weren't aware of what would be going on to complain about it even if it…