“Russian hackers posted instructions to an underground forum describing how to implement ‘privilege escalation,’ which could bypass some Vista security measures. This hack could escalate the ‘privileges’ of a normal Vista user into that of a ’superuser,’ allowing him to change anything he desired on the system. This would be particularly dangerous in a corporate environment where normal computer users have limited privileges, in that they cannot install programs, visit certain Web sites, etc. This threat is considered so serious that Microsoft has scrambled its ‘Security Response Center,’ which is ostensibly still trying to figure out what to do,” Moore reports.

Somehow, I don’t think this is what Gates and Ballmer had in mind when they launched the “wow starts now” campaign. Honestly, if security vulnerabilities are wows, Windows has been wowing us for years!

As MacDailyNews correctly notes:

Nowadays, security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come out with a total exploit, your machine can be taken over totally. I dare anybody to do that once a month on the Windows machine. - Bill Gates, February 02, 2007, Newsweek

I take it to mean the dare was accepted?

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