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[News] Vista Takes Another Bizarre Approach to Pseudo Security

Program Names govern admin rights in Vista

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| "This is a little bit silly: just name the installer something
| else, and Vista lets it through," Chess said. He added that
| although the feature is imperfect and inconvenient, it's
| "better than nothing".
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/04/23/vista_program_naming_oddness/

Workarounds, hacks, and some loose 'security' bolted in on top. How about
rebuilding the operating system? This is just as lame as managing
execution/handling privileges based on file extensions (filenames).

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