Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 10th Oct 2007 22:45 UTC
"The principal reason given for the tremendous under-the-hood changes to Windows unveiled early this year in Vista was the need to overhaul the security model. Indeed, Vista has proven to be a generally more secure operating system, though some vulnerabilities that apply to ordinary software impact Vista users just as much as any other. But now, software analysts testing the latest build 3205 of the beta for Windows XP Service Pack 3 are discovering a wealth of genuinely new features - not just patches and security updates (although there are literally over a thousand of those), but services that could substantially improve system security without overhauling the kernel like in Vista."
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2006-02-11
Basically, if some client says it can be trusted, the server just trusts the client?
No. If the client passes that test it just means that the server will allow it to connect whereas before ANY client was allowed to connect. It doesn't mean that it just trusts it to do whatever it wants from then on. The other points of security are still in place. This is just one more layer of added protection.
At least that's how I understand it. As for older and non-windows clients I'm sure this can be switched off by the administrator. It would be foolish of them if there was no way to do that.
Edited 2007-10-11 01:00