Re: Is Windows with Cygwin Unix?

J. Clarke wrote:
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Fundamentally, it's entirely possible to add access control on top of a
simple security model without compromising security, and that's what the
Unix vendors have done. Windows security is still flawed by design.

Please describe the flaw in the design.


Please don't take this too seriously, it is dated and $MS has made it more
difficult since this was discovered. But even still, dig deep enough and
work hard enough and this flaw can still be pinned down. Not something the
average user will ever be capable of...

http://security.tombom.co.uk/shatter.html

And $MS rebuttal:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/archive/security/news/htshat.mspx?mfr=true

As you can see it's yesterday's news. This is in the Windows architecture,
and I'm real interested to see if it can still be found in Vista. Just my
$.02 - not worth much, just a little tongue in cheek. :-)

-Jason


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