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Re: [Full-disclosure] Windows 7 UAC compromised



On Tue, 03 Feb 2009 09:48:48 EST, Ureleet said:
> y not have ur os secure in the first place and designed with full
> permissions instead of bothering the user.  look at linux, look at
> unix.  theyve been doing it 4 years.

Well, that *would* be an alternate way to design a system - but how would
you migrate an existing Windows box to a Windows 8 that did that?  There is
*such* a mass of software written specifically around all the cruft in the
Windows APIs that the inertia is the single biggest reason people keep running
Windows boxes.

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