Microsoft admits Vista UAC prompts 'need work'
Scott Charney, head of Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing division, admitted this week that Windows Vista's User Account Control (UAC) prompts are not intuitive and confuse users.
Scott Charney, head of Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing division, admitted this week that Windows Vista's User Account Control (UAC) prompts are not intuitive and confuse users.
Security researchers worked overtime in 2007, which turned out to be a nightmare for software vendors from day one.
The pre-draft 802.11s version, which is more suited for conditions in developing economies, has been tested to a range of 2km.
A tester for the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project has tested wireless technology using the 802.11s 'mesh networking' pre-draft in Australia's outback and achieved distances of 2km.
Traditional desktop security would improve beyond recognition if applications could be controlled to a point where they cannot access any part of the system that they do not need to, according to Alcy Infinity, co-founder of Timesavers International.
At the AusCERT 2007 conference in Queensland last week, keynote speaker Ivan Krstić, who is the director of security architecture for the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project, told attendees that desktop security was fundamentally broken. We asked several security experts who attended the conference if they agreed and how the problem could be fixed.