Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 15th May 2009 07:11 UTC, submitted by Georgi Petrov
Whenever we talk about Windows 7 on OSNews, you'll always hear me advise you to change the UAC settings by setting it to its highest level, since Windows 7's default simply isn't secure. You might wonder why you should deal with additional prompts - what is the security risk actually like? Well, it's pretty big.
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Instead of me going into depth of explaining the inernals of UAC and why it isn't a 'patch' which is 'totally insecure by design', why usermode isn't a giant insecure mess and why Windows will always be insecure until they move historical stuff into a VM, maybe Kroc would care to explain where he gets these ideas from.
Quite frankly, it's absolute rubbish, and someone writing about this stuff should really know better.
As the article states, if you move the slider to the top then it becomes secure again. This is a case of Microsoft making a bad decision on default security (again), not a case of Windows being insecure and flawed.
If Windows is so insecure and flawed, let's see Kroc move the slider to the top and compromise the security. Surely it can't be hard if his claims are true.
It sounded like an uninformed Microsoft hater comment. Something Thom avoids which is why I expected him to comment.
Edited 2009-05-18 07:42 UTC