Shattering Windows

Posted by timothy on Tuesday August 6, 2002 @07:54AM from the fundamentalism dept.

ChrisPaget writes: "I've just released a paper documenting and exploiting fundamental flaws in the Win32 API. Essentially, they allow you to take control of any window on your desktop, regardless of whether that window is running as you, localsystem, or anywhere in between. The technique has been discussed before, but AFAIK this is the first working exploit. Oh, did I mention it's unfixable?" You may want to read this CNET interview with Microsoft security head Scott Charney to learn even more about "trustworthy computing."

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Take control? by Corvaith · 2002-08-06 07:58 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Does that mean that you could make them all stop crashing? Please?

I'm on reboot #26 today. And this with the supposedly stable Windows XP. Trustworthy computing--I can't even trust it to /run/. I have no illusions about it being secure.
Fucking stupid by RadioheadKid · 2002-08-06 08:45 · Score: 0, Flamebait

1 this is old
2 this is old
3 this is definite windows bashing
4 if you really understand what is going on here, its not a big deal.
5 this is old

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