Linked by Jordan Spencer Cunningham on Fri 14th Aug 2009 02:29 UTC
It's the end of the world. Again. According to some Linux developers and security researchers, a bug in the Linux kernel has just been uncovered that makes just about every distribution utilizing kernel 2.4 and 2.6 on just about all architectures since May of 2001 vulnerable to a certain kind of attack.
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The problem is you think that *this* is the worst bug ever found.
It may be the worst bug found so far.
You don't know what you don't know. There could be plenty more egregious ones out there, ones that can rival Windows ones.
And there could be plenty more egregious ones in Windows that haven’t been discovered aswell.
Well done for making a non-point.
Member since:2008-05-31
You completely misunderstand UAC if you think that is the case.
Running apps with different privileges on the same desktop is risky on all major OSes. But it's actually less risky on Windows than on most other OSes thanks to the secure desktop consent prompt (much safer than the non-SAS password model used on most *nix OSes and OS X), UIPI, etc.
Still, on any OS, if you're super paranoid then you're best off using separate user accounts and avoiding sudo / UAC like mechanisms.
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2008-04-10
True, but now Linux fan boys like me can take a different tack: The Worst Bug Ever in Linux is patched. UAC still has a gaping intentional loophole so Microsoft can let Notepad.exe run as admin. When a security hole is found in Linux, it gets fixed. When one is found in Windows, Microsoft either clam up, blame the users, or issue a patch years late.