MrGuvernment
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for some reason, i dont think so, and dont think many would agree......
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| Microsoft Says Other OSes Should Imitate UAC |
| from the bring-'em-down-to-our-level dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Tuesday May 01, @13:28 (Security) |
| http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/01/1643240 |
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COA writes "Many Vista adopters find User Account Control irritating, but Microsoft [0]thinks it's an approach other OSes should emulate. Microsoft Australia's Chief Security Adviser Peter Watson calls UAC a great idea and 'strategically a direction that all operating systems and all technologies should be heading down.' He also believes Microsoft is charting new territory with UAC. 'The most controversial aspect of Watson's comments all center around the idea that Microsoft is a leader with UAC, and that other OSes should follow suit. UAC is a cousin of myriad "superuser" process elevation strategies, of which Mac OS X and all flavors of Linux already enjoy. The fact is that Microsoft is late to the party with their Microsoftized version of sudo. That's really what UAC is, after all: sudo with a fancy display mechanism (to make it hard to spoof) and extra monitoring to pick up on "suspicious" behavior.'"
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0. http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/pos...is-so-good-other-oses-should-follow-suit.html