Microsoft is sacrificing security for usability

Posted by theBeez on Feb 3, 2009 7:43 AM EDT
I started something; By Long Zheng
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A change to User Account Control (UAC) in Windows 7 (beta) to make it “less annoying” inadvertently clears the path for a simple but ingenius override that renders UAC disabled without user interaction. Microsoft has officially responded to my concerns and continues to insist the functionality is “by design”, dismisses the security concerns and again leans towards they will not be addressing the issue for the final release of Windows 7.

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