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Wednesday, February 23, 2005

The Register chimes in on Microsoft security

I knew that Windows security was still pretty poor. But this article points out how some of the security problems in Windows are actually design decisions that can't easily be reversed. The sad part: some of these vulnerabilities (like implied searches for executables) were in computer science literature 20 years ago as being security design decisions that programmers should avoid.