__/ [ Jerry McBride ] on Sunday 20 August 2006 21:59 \__
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> Windows Vista Inherits the Sins of the Father
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>> | Symantec presented a trilogy report following a generalized evaluation
>> | of the operating system's network stack, User Account Control (UAC)
>> | technology and kernel mode security and stated an instability
>> | diagnosis concluding that Vista will deliver an inferior level of
>> | protection compared to its predecessor.
>> |
>> | And Symantec is not a singular case in this regard; security experts
>> | from Agnitum have pointed the finger at Microsoft for eliminating third
>> | party proactive protection by denying kernel control via the altering
>> | of the Service Dispatch Table through the implementation of Kernel
>> | Patch Protection.
>> |
>> | [...]
>> |
>> | The sins of the father... Microsoft's incubatory exorcism failed,
>> | Vista vulnerabilities proved inherent to the system, a collateral
>> | baggage of the code source genealogy.
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http://news.softpedia.com/news/Windows-Vista-Inherits-the-Sins-of-the-Father-33279.shtml
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> I'm grining ear-to-ear with this bit of "news". When will they ever learn?
They apparently learn from UNIX/Linux. They work on Singularity. But it's
waaaaaaaay too late. They could not keep a handle on the market with XP SP3,
or XP4 (Vienna?) for nearly one decade. Not even with the same old
corruption ans scare tactic. Minutes ago I received an E-mail from a
77-year-old friend. He wants to try Ubuntu.
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