Don't be surprised by this!

[Crunchy(Cracked)Butter]

Windows fundamentally flawed?

Passport confiscated

Special version of XP this year

This one i like, i doubt "real" students would or could buy this, most are broke or try to get everything off their NUS (student discount card in the UK)card to survive, while the clever ones just buy a distro.

[xyle_one]

im not surprised, it actually put a smile on my face    . So windows is crap at its most basic level. You would think that they could at least get the basics right. just goes to show that microsoft should not be a choice when it comes to any thing involving computers.  
when windows is proven to be a pile of shit, why do people still use it?? i dont get it.
 
Windows fundamentally flawed?

Report claims Win32 can never be secure

A security report has surfaced which claims that Windows is irredeemably broken at a fundamental level. It is all to do with the internal messages sent between the Windows kernel and applications. It transpires that these are not authenticated and can come from all over the shop, this means rogue applications can fool systems into all sorts of trickery. A quick and dirty application which changes a users privileges has been produced to prove the point. The report claims that Microsoft knows all about the situation and is simply trying to ignore it.

ecsyle_one

[Calum]

quote:Microsoft made false claims shock

'Nuff said...

[Crunchy(Cracked)Butter]

I have stopped worrying about TCPA or DRM.

Does anybody remember some PC convention with Billg showing future users how great win98 would be, while plugging in a USB scanner and win crashes?

Well i'm now thinking another soon to be famous FUBAR when microsoft proves to the world that you CANNOT copy a CD using mediaplayer in XP or send an mp3 to another machine.  They'll put the CD in and XP or whatver WILL COPY it!  Thats gonna be a good day, or if they hype palliduim  so much like they did with the release of XP and proclaim nothing is ever going to happen to a personal computer again and guess what, some fucking huge horrible worm is going to infect windroids pc's like a week after the release.  Then whats their excuse other than blaming the virus writer?

[lazygamer]

Here's a question. I heard something about how windows works on these imaginary windows sending info to each other, however windows does not verify the integrity of the data sent to it. This makes it very insecure to someone who knows what they are doing. This correct defition?

So would that mean that if Windows had stuff to validate data, it would be signficantly slower?

[ntiozymandias]

quote:Originally posted by lazygamer:
Here's a question. I heard something about how windows works on these imaginary windows sending info to each other, however windows does not verify the integrity of the data sent to it. This makes it very insecure to someone who knows what they are doing. This correct defition?

So would that mean that if Windows had stuff to validate data, it would be signficantly slower?

No, but that's not the point. The problem exists at a fundamental level. It is not possible to correct it without restructuring the basic operations of the Windows OS. It's the same problem that plagues public AirPort/802.11 networks: No matter how much protection exists against outside attackers, anybody inside the system has a trapdoor available.