Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Fri 8th Aug 2008 13:14 UTC
This week at the Black Hat Security Conference two security researchers will discuss their findings which could completely bring Windows Vista to its knees. According to Dino Dai Zovi, a popular security researcher, "the genius of this is that it's completely reusable. They have attacks that let them load chosen content to a chosen location with chosen permissions. That's completely game over."
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2007-02-17
The multi-user architecture is definitely there. It's quite misused though.
Another designed-in limitation of Windows ... you can't have more than one user simultaneously logged-in, even though the OS is designed to support it, because ... Microsoft wants to charge you a bootload more money for the same code if you want multiple users logged in?
Typical.
What a rip-off.
Most OSes have been true multi-user for forty years or more.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multics