Windows 8 Introduces a New Cross-App Data-Sharing System

Posted by timothy on Friday September 23, 2011 @02:50PM from the at-least-it-won't-get-exploited-by-malware dept.

There's been a lot of attention to the way Windows 8 looks; reader aabelro writes with an interesting look at one way it behaves. The article begins thus: "Microsoft has created a new mechanism for sharing information between applications in Windows 8 called Windows Share. Apps can share text, bitmaps, HTML, URI, files, and other type of data, and the usage scenarios are numerous. For example, the app receiving the information can post it to Tweeter or Facebook[, making] it easy to post information to a social network without actually visiting it." Here's a short (video) explanation at MSDN, too.

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On behalf of every trojan creator on the planet by Opportunist · 2011-09-23 16:59 · Score: 0, Troll

THANK YOU!
I mean, not that it was necessary, but this sure makes the life of a keylogging, password stealing crook easier. Hope you don't forget to add an API-call to tweet something. Oh, and if you don't mind... don't make it require admin privs... but you won't, right? After all, what bad could happen from using something like twitter from an application?
Do they EVER think of security before SP1, when everyone and their dog figured the glaringly obvious security problems out?

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