[cap-talk] Joanna Rutkowska on Windows Vista UAC

[Bill Frantz]

daw at cs.berkeley.edu (David Wagner) on Monday, March 5, 2007 wrote:

>FYI,
>
>There's been some discussion about Vista's new UAC mechanism on this
>list.  I thought people might find these blog posts about it of interest.
>
>http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com/2007/02/running-vista-every-day.html
>http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com/2007/02/vista-security-model-big-joke.html
>http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com/2007/02/confiusion-about-joke.html

I happened to have <http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=109> fall into my
inbox.  It shows one of the things Joanna Rutkowska has been doing
recently.  Since I hadn't heard of her before David's links, I found her
Black Hat presentation interesting.

Cheers - Bill

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