The strange case of Vista, malware coders and the NSA
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| According to a news story at IT Pro, malware writers are doing a better job
| of making their code Vista compatible than the developers of the security
| software meant to protect users of the soon to be released operating
| system. Rene Millman reports that Tim Eades, a senior vice-president at
| security company Sana Security, reckons no less than 38% of malware is
| Vista friendly, if that?s the right word.
|
| [...]
|
| I could be wrong, I hope I am. But maybe I am not, and maybe it is just
| one more reason to start thinking outside of the Windows box. Literally.
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http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry1266.html
Related:
Malware more compatible with Vista than anti-malware products
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| Malware writers appear to be much further along in developing malware
| for Vista than the security industry is in making products to protect
| the new operating system.
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http://www.itpro.co.uk/news/102716/malware-more-compatible-with-vista-than-antimalware-products.html
The Longest Suicide Note in History
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| On the same podcast Gutmann scotched suggestions Microsoft were held
| to ransom by Hollywood;
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| [...]
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| The genie's out of the bottle before the operating system has even
| been released! But that doesn't mean Vista users in particular - and
| the computer community at large - won't end up paying for Microsoft's
| DRM folly. At the risk of repeating myself repeating myself, yet
| another reason to move to Linux.
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http://blogs.pcworld.co.nz/pcworld/tux-love/2007/01/the_longest_suicide_note_in_hi.html
Sun Blogs: Comments on Peter Gutmann's Vista paper
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| Overall, I agree with Gutmann that what is being attempted is
| fundamentally impossible - although I don't agree with all the
| consequences he draws. Further, I believe that software vendors
| have no right to dictate what hardware vendors produce. I also
| must say that Note C made me grin, being Gutmann's view on DRM.
|
| Finally, I can't see any Sun hardware ever being certified to
| run Vista, since the apparent need (as described in the article)
| to keep hardware details secret goes against our philosophy
| (even SPARC is famously open-source, see VHDL for a SPARC v8
| implementation and our own Verilog of the T1 SPARC v9).
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http://blogs.sun.com/davew/entry/comments_on_peter_gutmann_s
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