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Microsoft Patents sudo

Jimmy O Regan writes "Justin Mason (of SpamAssassin fame) has this blog entry: US Patent 6,775,781, filed by Microsoft, is a patent on the concept of 'a process configured to run under an administrative privilege level' which, based on authorization information 'in a data store', may perform actions at administrative privilege on behalf of a 'user process'."

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  1. Re:How can Microsoft patent the virus? by SmegTheLight · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I wonder when they will patent the spell checker...

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