On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 12:45:07 -0400, Stuart Krivis wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 04:31:13 -0500, Erik Funkenbusch
> <erik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>>On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 04:17:18 -0500, Erik Funkenbusch wrote:
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>>> 5: [News] More on Rootkits; Vista Holey Even Before Release?...... : 65
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> Thanks for reminding me. Didn't I just read that MS had already
> started releasing security fixes for Vista?
Why is that surprising?
There are security fixes released for cooker builds of various Linux
distro's as well.
> I thought the whole idea behind Vista was that it was going to stop
> all of these security problems?
Nothing will stop software from having flaws. That's impossible. What
*IS* possible is to make the software not exploitable (or less exploitable)
when a flaw is found. The flaw still exists, and needs to be patched, but
is mitigated by configuration and/or other factors.
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