____/ nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on Tuesday 07 August 2007 16:18 : \____
> <Quote>
> It had a free utility's digital certificate revoked
>
> August 06, 2007 (Computerworld) -- Microsoft Corp. last week slammed
> the door on a free utility out of Australia that outflanked one of the
> company's touted security features in Windows Vista, by having the
> program's digital certificate revoked....
>
> s<snip />
>
> "To describe this tool as 'undesirable' stretches that word beyond
> reason. Atsiv has no self-propagating functionality. It doesn't do any
> privilege escalation or modify any system functions or memory or
> anything like that. It uses (I assume) documented windows APIs to
> provide functionality that some people clearly desire. You need to be
> an administrator to run it. You will see the [User Account Control]
> dialog, if enabled. If people choose to download and run it on their
> own computers, then it is providing 'desirable' functionality, by
> definition."
> </Quote>
>
>
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=windows&articleId=9029161&taxonomyId=125
>
> You vill do vat vee say or vee vill shut down your computer.
They do the same thing on the Web, as I pointed out earlier. They
are 'policing' and 'supervising' too many things. Software compatibility and
licensing are other examples.
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