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Posted by CmdrTaco (28% noise) View
goldragon writes “TechRepublic is reporting that “Microsoft is pulling out all the stops to improve security. So much so, in fact, that it will cause many problems because SP2 will de-emphasize backward compatibility with legacy systems and code for the sake of security.” One small step forward for Microsoft, one giant leap backwards for mankind?”
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Hmmm - by C_Kode (Score: 4, Insightful) Thread
One small step forward for Microsoft, one giant leap backwards for mankind?
Spoken like a true zealot. I’m an OOS advocate, but I disagree with this type of statement. It’s a damned if you do/damned if you don’t situation when someone makes comments like this. Hey, security is important here, and I’m sure Microsoft gauged this responce carefully before making these changes. Sure it’s going to break some systems, but sometimes something has to give to move forward. I don’t know about you, but security is very important to me. If the patch breaks your system, don’t install it untill you’re ready for the change. No one is forcing the service pack down your throat.
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And you are complaining WHY? - by British (Score: 5, Insightful) Thread
Ie this message is moreso for the submitter. Love the tone of your voice. We see almost daily MS lack-of security woes and now MS does something about it. Then you have to bitch about not supporing legacy this or that in the name of security. I think I would rather choose security. hell, all you need to be considered a computer security expert is just say “everything’s insecure.”
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Funny how that works - by thefatz (Score: 5, Insightful) Thread
The reason Windows is in such a hurt is compatibility with everything. Even most Linux distros dont offer the level of backwards compatibility that windows xp or less does. You can still to this day run Win16 apps under windows and still print and save, as if it were no big deal. Thats just not possible with Linux. Try downloading or running a binary from 1994 that was compiled for linux and see if it works, im sure libc and glibc and aout and elf will make things fun.
Its kinda sad how things are around here for Microsoft, Damned of they do, Damned of they dont. Somebody shows progress and they get pounced.
”…one giant leap backwards for mankind?”…And recreating an OS from the 70’s isnt? Thats pretty narrow thinking.
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Part of the design… - by LostCluster (Score: 5, Insightful) Thread
SP2 represents a big change in Microsoft’s security vs. ease-of-use stance.
In the past, Windows shipped with many unlikely-to-be-useful services such as the NetBIOS Messenger service turned on by default installations, meaning that a user who wanted to use the service just needs to start using it and it’ll already be there ready to work. Of course, we all know how this has been exploited by spammers.
Now, such non-essential services will default to the “off” position, and the user will have to take a step to affirmatively activate the services they want to use. This makes plug-and-play operation a little harder to accomplish, but Microsoft has finally decided that the security gained is worth more than the ease lost.
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Seems deceptive - by stanmann (Score: 5, Interesting) Thread
The article indicates that most of the things being broken will be viruses and trojans.
And that the only other major change will be to Finally honor the NX(Non-executable) memory designation, IOW if you want self-modifying code, you can still have it, but you can’t place a call to an area that has been marked as Data-only or NX.
Seems to be all good to me…
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