Linux on LaptopsRe: [LINK] (no subject)

[Richard Chirgwin]

Hell, yes, Vista has security. See:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/04/23/vista_program_naming_oddness/

> Developers have discovered that the name given to a Vista executable 
> affects whether or not it will require admin rights to run.
[snip]

> "If Vista sees that you have created a Microsoft Visual C++ project 
> with /install/ in the project name, then that .exe will automatically 
> require Admin Rights to run. Create exactly the same project, but call 
> it, say, Fred, and the problem disappears," he explained. "Vista's 
> security isn't just concerned with what an .exe is doing to your PC, 
> but what it's actually called."
>
Instead of "security by obscurity", MS has deployed "security by 
stupidity". Even script kiddies and spambots couldn't expect MS to be 
*that* stupid as to allow "rights escalation" on the basis of program 
name...

RC

Adam Todd wrote:
> At 03:19 PM 23/04/2007, Howard Lowndes wrote:
>>>>> But from my previous experience with Knoppix and Unbuntu (Breezy 
>>>>> Badger)  the challenge with using linux is the security!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> M, could you be more specific here.  Ubuntu uses sudo by default so 
>>>> where is there a security problem?
>>> the problem is that there is security!
>>
>> ...and I would rather have the security the way Ubuntu runs it than 
>> the way Vista runs it - not.
>
> Vista has security?
>
>
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