Windows Vista Security

Most anyone who has been in the security industry for a while is familiar with the term ‘security theater’. It’s a term used for security that is about show, rather than substance.

Hypothetical example: Someone might report a ‘stunning, world shattering’ Windows Vista vulnerability that allows an application to ‘steal all the users data’. However when we dig past the shock and horror and into the actual facts behind the vulnerability we discover that this earth shattering attack requires that the attacker has both physical access to the PC as well as administrator rights to the PC. Well hang on a second…

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