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Microsoft Says Other OSes Should Imitate UAC
COA writes "Many Vista adopters find User Account Control irritating, but Microsoft thinks it's an approach other OSes should emulate. Microsoft Australia's Chief Security Adviser Peter Watson calls UAC a great idea and 'strategically a direction that all operating systems and all technologies should be heading down.' He also believes Microsoft is charting new territory with UAC. 'The most controversial aspect of Watson's comments all center around the idea that Microsoft is a leader with UAC, and that other OSes should follow suit. UAC is a cousin of myriad "superuser" process elevation strategies, of which Mac OS X and all flavors of Linux already enjoy. The fact is that Microsoft is late to the party with their Microsoftized version of sudo. That's really what UAC is, after all: sudo with a fancy display mechanism (to make it hard to spoof) and extra monitoring to pick up on "suspicious" behavior.'"
Microsoft would is trying to make you believe sudo was their idea. Cancel or Allow?
Life is short: void the warranty.
From TFA: "Why should I be letting my normal user be running as system administrator?" Welcome to the 1980s
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make me a sandwich.
He says cute things too sometimes.
Yeah, it is about time those OpenBSD pikers got off their collective asses and followed the World Leader in Secure Operating Systems: Microsoft.
"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." - H.L. Mencken
since when ?
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Why use UAC when a much more intuitive sudo interface has already been developed?
because Unix has a method to do this [that isn't annoying], so we should immediately switch to one that is?
what the hell is security through pop-ups anyway?
The machine unmakes the man. Now that the machine is so perfect, the engineer is nobody. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
...ROT13 *is* easier to manage and deploy.
...my browser keeps asking me to allow or deny arstechnica...
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My version of DOS has nothing close, Neither do my versions of Windows 3.1, 95, 98, ME, 2000, or XP. A Ton Of OS's dont have anything even remotly close to UAC.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
You are coming to a sad realization. Confirm or Deny? :)
We implemented a special switch which allows these functions. It's located inside the computer's power supply, near the big thing marked "1000uF 250V".
In order for the setting to take effect, you have to make sure to press the switch while the computer is running. We've found that using a steel coat-hanger wire (be sure to sand the paint off, first, you don't want it getting into your computer!) passed in through the vent holes in back works well.
"Ladies and gentlemen, my killbot features Lotus Notes and a machine gun. It is the finest available."
... and then they will sue them for patent infringement.
You can't win.
I'll probably be modded down for this...
Microsoft Australia's Chief Security Adviser Peter Watson calls UAC a great idea (and wishes everyone had it)
In other news, the Notre Dame football coach thinks his team can win. Local Ford salesman hates Toyotas. Linus Torvalds thinks Linux is great. Christians report having favorable rating for Jesus this year.
MS's Chief Security Adviser is paid to evangelize MS security. This is news?
-- Political fascism requires a Fuhrer.
When did Micro$oft buy the Union Aerospace Corp? Does Id know about this?
It makes me feel, y'know, cultured.
Microsoft telling others how to do security is like a chicken telling Colonel Sanders how to cook.
I don't think seniority holds much here. You could disagree with me I suppose, but it wouldn't be very consistent :P
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first post!