Microsoft partners fume over Vista security

[NoStop]

"The biggest — and currently unresolved — fight hinges on vendors' claims
they have been locked out of access to the core, or kernel, of higher-end,
64-bit versions of Vista.

A new feature called PatchGuard is meant to protect the most sensitive
information in the guts of the system. While blocking out hackers,
PatchGuard also keeps out security vendors that have traditionally been
allowed inside to retrieve necessary information.

Vendors said their products will thus lack advanced security features for
64-bit users (The 32-bit version that consumers are likely to get does not
include PatchGuard and thus offers access to the disputed data). "

So, does this mean that ordinary home users/consumers are not going to have
a version of Vista that protects the kernel from assaults? GNU/Linux has
managed to separate the kernel space from the user space since its
inception and all these years later Microsoft still can't or won't offer
this to its ordinary customers?


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Linux is ready for the desktop! More ready than Windoze XP.
http://tinyurl.com/ldm9d

"Computer users around the globe recognize that the most serious threats to
security exist because of inherent weaknesses in the Microsoft operating
system." McAfee

 

[Kerry Brown]

Maybe they're trying to stop exploits like this one.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=nvidia+driver+linux+exploit&btnG=Search&meta=

By the way your newsreader is misconfigured. You should change your
followup. Or maybe you are just trolling?

 

[NoStop]

"The biggest — and currently unresolved — fight hinges on vendors' claims
they have been locked out of access to the core, or kernel, of higher-end,
64-bit versions of Vista.

A new feature called PatchGuard is meant to protect the most sensitive
information in the guts of the system. While blocking out hackers,
PatchGuard also keeps out security vendors that have traditionally been
allowed inside to retrieve necessary information.

Vendors said their products will thus lack advanced security features for
64-bit users (The 32-bit version that consumers are likely to get does not
include PatchGuard and thus offers access to the disputed data). "

So, does this mean that ordinary home users/consumers are not going to
have a version of Vista that protects the kernel from assaults? GNU/Linux
has managed to separate the kernel space from the user space since its
inception and all these years later Microsoft still can't or won't offer
this to its ordinary customers?

Oops, sorry. Forgot to post the link to this article. Here it is ...

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20061020.gtmsftticked20/BNStory/Technology/home

And for those using deficient newsreaders, here's a TinyURL link to the
article ...

http://tinyurl.com/y8c7gk

Cheers.


--
Linux is ready for the desktop! More ready than Windoze XP.
http://tinyurl.com/ldm9d

"Computer users around the globe recognize that the most serious threats to
security exist because of inherent weaknesses in the Microsoft operating
system." McAfee

 

[Kerry Brown]

It's very strange that only the linux advocates have a problem with setting
the followup option properly in their newsreaders. Here's a link to the
KNode documentation that will help you configure this option.

http://docs.kde.org/stable/en/kdepim/knode/more-knode-features.html

 

[Pop`]

Not really, IMO<g>: Many 'nixers, especially those who know enough to be
dangerous, just get used to not having what they need to do anything and
don't think it can be done unless they've spent hours researching a resource
and/or maybe even writing/assembling their own little objects.
Don't get me wrong: Linux is GREAT and Open Source is GREAT! It's just
that I've noticed a lot of the 'nix snobs don't do much other than reinvent
wheels. There's a visual block for anything that's lower than their noses.

Pop`

 

[Kerry Brown]

Most linux users ignore the cola crowd. I like to bait them once in a while

 

[mikeyhsd]

try to keep up
MS has already announced they will be making access to certain parts available.
was done days ago.
..



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"The biggest — and currently unresolved — fight hinges on vendors' claims
they have been locked out of access to the core, or kernel, of higher-end,
64-bit versions of Vista.

A new feature called PatchGuard is meant to protect the most sensitive
information in the guts of the system. While blocking out hackers,
PatchGuard also keeps out security vendors that have traditionally been
allowed inside to retrieve necessary information.

Vendors said their products will thus lack advanced security features for
64-bit users (The 32-bit version that consumers are likely to get does not
include PatchGuard and thus offers access to the disputed data). "

So, does this mean that ordinary home users/consumers are not going to have
a version of Vista that protects the kernel from assaults? GNU/Linux has
managed to separate the kernel space from the user space since its
inception and all these years later Microsoft still can't or won't offer
this to its ordinary customers?


--
Linux is ready for the desktop! More ready than Windoze XP.
http://tinyurl.com/ldm9d

"Computer users around the globe recognize that the most serious threats to
security exist because of inherent weaknesses in the Microsoft operating
system." McAfee

 

[Leythos]

From: NoStop <[email protected]>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy, microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Followup-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy

Why post this to Nix and Win groups and then break the path by setting
follow-up to only the Nix group.

I fixed the follow-up.