Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Mon 11th Aug 2008 16:13 UTC, submitted by gonzo
Ars Technica has analyzed recently publicized Vista's security flaws. "Unfortunate, yes, but not as was reported in the immediate aftermath of the presentation evidence that Vista's security is useless, nor does this work constitute a major security issue. And it's not game over, either. Sensationalism sells, and there's no news like bad news, but sometimes particularly when covering security issues, it would be nice to see accuracy and level-headedness instead. ... Furthermore, these attacks are specifically on the buffer overflow protections; they do not circumvent the IE Protected Mode sandbox, nor Vista's (in)famous UAC restrictions."
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You trivialize it by saying "it's not really game over" and agree with the author on that point! no take backs.
A serious error and game over are not the same thing. I'm not aware of any public unpatched exploits that take advantage of this. There may never be one. There are critical exploitable, common, bugs patched monthly, and they don't get the coverage and hype of this. The act of installing flash/plugins has screwed people from a security standpoint well before this bug was public.
not this time.