full-disclosure - Re: Windows 7 UAC compromised

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Message-ID: <2df3b0cb0902031340k70ffc9d9l73c095672773228b@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 19:40:56 -0200
From: "M.B.Jr." <marcio.barbado@...il.com>
To: Christopher Pritchard <mailinglist@...iniacghost.co.uk>
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu,
	full-disclosure <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Windows 7 UAC compromised

Windows says: Hello world! Check this out, world, this is really cool.
Now I have, uh, something like, uh, "privileges management"!



"UAC" is no more than a new commercial designation for something with
about 40 years.
And they (Redmond) are still missing the concept's point.






On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Christopher Pritchard
<mailinglist@...iniacghost.co.uk> wrote:
>> The biggest issue here is that although it's technically easy to fix
>> this problem (just have UAC issue an alert when somebody's messing with
>> the system settings), it involves doing more of what end users dislike
>> most about UAC (it issuing alerts to Joe Sixpack all the time when he
>> does something bone-headed security-wise).
>>
>> Fixing this one in a way that users will put up with will be a bitch.
>
> Why not just have it not prompt if you are changing settings, except for UAC settings? that would be the simple way around it
>
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Marcio Barbado, Jr.

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