More and more people are not happy with Micro$oft. I think this may be the beginning of the end. Or at least a major restructuring. I'm waiting for more malware and viruses to spread from. Windows devices which include Windows Desktop ( 98, Me, XP and Vista ) Windows CE, Windows Embedded ( ATM machines and Voting machines I think are biased on Windows Embedded ) and Dashboard ( X-Box and X-Box 360 ). Dashboard on the 360 may not be the Windows 2000 kernel anymore. I'm sure they used all the same API's and or code from Windows.
I think the other funny thing is all the new code Microsoft is sticking into XP, Vista and Office. They may fix issues with new code. It just means you should make sure you audit the code as well. There are all so compromises Microsoft is making with User Account Control (UCA) along with Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR). These are good steps in the right direction. I'm sure everyone has read the stuff on UCA. Did you hear that ASLR was only compiled on MS code. So if you have a 3rd party application that did not enable ASLR at compile time. Guess what, you get to read everything in the memory address space. -Miller _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
