Re: [Full-disclosure] Windows 7 UAC compromised

[Ureleet <ureleet@xxxxxxxxx>]

ms just needs to tell the developers.  look, we are going to do this,
heres the coding, heres the new api's conform or get left back.

theyll conform.

On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 10:09 AM,  <Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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