On Feb 5, 11:59 am, Kenneth ****ter <****va.blackl...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:
> Sundial Services <i...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
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> > Vista is the first Windows release that really embraces this... that
> > grabs on the notion that "even though this is 'your' computer, there
> > are things that 'you' should not be able to do" and will not let go.
>
> I prefer to phrase this as "your day-to-day normal login". "You" can
still
> do almost anything by logging in as administrator, but this is now
strongly
> discouraged in order to create a barrier between automatically-run
> malicious programs and critical system resources.
>
> But there are a few things that I think are overzealously protected. The
> one that I find problematic is MS-signed drivers. Without their
signature,
> a driver won't load at boot time unless you take the system into
developer
> mode and approve the driver with each boot. This should be something the
> owner of the machine can sign once to approve, presumably with suitable
> barriers to prevent a mindless click-through by a regular user. Without
> this, there's a significant barrier to entry by freeware and open
source
> hardware driver writers.
Yeah, well, Microsoft thinks your last sentence describes a feature,
not a problem.
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