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Old 09-25-2008   #3 (permalink)
James R. Gentile


 
 

Re: UAC not a "security boundary."

Good article, and good video, thanks to both of you.

"James R. Gentile" <no1@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Does anyone know, why MS does not consider UAC to be a security boundary?
> And what are the trade-offs involved with making it one? Is it not
> possible to make it a security boundary? It seems kinda anti-customer to
> say "if we find a security exploit in our code (in UAC) we won't fix it,"
> doesn't it? I wish this would be fixed in Windows 7, but I admit I don't
> understand all the issues involved, so any help would be nice.
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