[CS-FSLUG] OT: FEWER PERMISSIONS ARE KEY TO LONGHORN SECURITY

Fred A. Miller fmiller at lightlink.com
Mon Apr 11 13:35:20 CDT 2005


FEWER PERMISSIONS ARE KEY TO LONGHORN SECURITY

Software engineers who attend Microsoft's annual Windows Hardware
Engineering Conference later this month could get their first taste of a
new Windows user permissions model that could change the way thousands
of programs are developed and run. But as the company prepares for the
final Longhorn development push, questions remain about its plans for a
new user privileges model called Least-Privilege User Account, or LUA.

http://newsletter.infoworld.com/t?ctl=CCBA91:1F5C3D3

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