Full Disclosure: Re: Windows 7 UAC compromised

[Kevin Wilcox <kevin () tux appstate edu>]

2009/2/5 Miller Grey <vigilantgregorius () gmail com>:

> On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 3:40 PM, M.B.Jr. <marcio.barbado () gmail com> wrote:
> > Windows says: Hello world! Check this out, world, this is really cool.
> > Now I have, uh, something like, uh, "privileges management"!
> > "UAC" is no more than a new commercial designation for something with
> > about 40 years.
> > And they (Redmond) are still missing the concept's point.
> ...what?
He's saying Microsoft has embraced and extended "privilege management"
and "introduced" it as something new, "UAC".

He then says Microsoft is daft and missing the entire point of
privilege management, even though it's been around for decades and
their "UAC" is nothing new.

Make sense?

kmw

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