full-disclosure - Re: Windows 7 UAC compromised

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Message-ID: <2df3b0cb0902051329x78a56717i2b68af65dabb1aaa@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 19:29:35 -0200
From: "M.B.Jr." <marcio.barbado@...il.com>
To: Kevin Wilcox <kevin@....appstate.edu>
Cc: full-disclosure <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>,
	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu, Miller Grey <vigilantgregorius@...il.com>
Subject: Re: Windows 7 UAC compromised

Comments below.

On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 6:58 PM, Kevin Wilcox <kevin@....appstate.edu> wrote:
> 2009/2/5 Miller Grey <vigilantgregorius@...il.com>:
>> No, it doesn't make sense...I don't think Redmond missed the point at all,
>> they're trying to introduce a concept totally new to the everyday user who,
>> like Valdis said, only "...wants his dancing hamster screensaver.", and will
>> blindly click any OK button that pops up.  Ultimately, Valdis is right,
>> Redmond cares about profit, and creating an OS that is irritating to the
>> everyday jackass does not help their profits.
>
> Wait, so is he right when he said all they care about is profit, was
> he right when he said they intentionally missed it or both?

No, he isn't. But they're an enterprise, and they like money more than
good code. The Marxist product-based profit posture enforced in the
referred software vendor is a curse through which organizations let
quality go for the mere financial benefit of some banking accounts.
Agile methodologies and its horrible "extremme programming" (XP)
premises constitute a few examples.

-- 
Marcio Barbado, Jr.

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