Comments on: Why Windows Vista ‘might’ Actually be Good

By: Navaho Gunleg

Navaho Gunleg — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 06:10:37 +0000

Anonymous: Yeah it is the beginning of that daunting big-brother age. Well actually, we’re already halfway-through, most people just failed to notice.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 11:59:41 +0000

Right after the part you bolded, it says: AND even then they require administrator-level user permission. It sounds like you need the admin password AND you need permission from Bill Gates or whoever he trusts with a signing key. Is this the beginning of the Palladium big-brother situation Ross Anderson warned us about years ago? http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rja14/tcpa-faq.html

By: Haydies

Haydies — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 14:12:26 +0000

Wow, windows that dosn’t run drivers in ring zero? Amazing. Well, not really. NT was like that but with these new fangled accelorated cards there where performance issues, so move the drivers closer to the core, they go faster…. apparently.

Still, can’t see it making all that much differance. Unless they implement file security as well…

I’m due to reinstall a machine this week, so I might well give vista a blast… see what its like….

Secure windows? now thats 2 words you wouldn’t expect to site next to each other…..

By: Navaho Gunleg

Navaho Gunleg — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 11:50:10 +0000

Somehow I am really not convinced.

They are probably still busy removing all the symbols that can identify their binaries as being stolen Open Source code.

And a delay because of increased security-awareness or such-and-such? I think one should read that as “Woops it’s not working, we’re opening stuff up and crippling the safety features until the software interoperates again.”

If you haven’t noticed yet — I hate Microsoft’s software and I spit on their track-record. ;)

By: backbone

backbone — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 11:41:08 +0000

i’m really curios on there own rewriten TCP/IP protocol… i bet it will have thounsands of flaws…
Vista were gonna hack you!!! hahaha

By: Navaho Gunleg

Navaho Gunleg — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 10:21:49 +0000

Yeh the old kernel, built atop DOS 3.2′s PRINT queue. :P[/cheapshot]

BTW I find the Vista name terribly similar to ‘Fista’ so that promises plenty of pain in the arse. (But I guess you should have a dirty mind like mine to get that remark — nvm.)

By: Darknet

Darknet — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 10:17:23 +0000

I think they actually avoided the term re-write, and stuck to overhaul as they had backward compatibility problems or something, so it’s still mostly the old Kernel.

But yeah…bound to get pwned :D

By: Navaho Gunleg

Navaho Gunleg — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 06:50:02 +0000

Kernel overhaul? I beg to differ — they discovered some vulnerabilities in their OS which also affected Vista, some time ago. When I read that, together with the fact that years ago some MS official stated that Vista would be a complete re-write.

That vulnerability lead me to think otherwise.

And now they market it as a re-write again? *confused*

Hopefully, some bunch of crackers with too much free time on their hands will kill this weird marketing ploy. :]