{"id":600,"date":"2008-04-29T09:55:54","date_gmt":"2008-04-29T08:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?p=600"},"modified":"2008-04-29T09:55:54","modified_gmt":"2008-04-29T08:55:54","slug":"why-uac-is-mostly-not-a-security-boundary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/600-why-uac-is-mostly-not-a-security-boundary.html","title":{"rendered":"Why UAC is (mostly) not a security boundary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/crispincowan\/archive\/2008\/04\/28\/uac-desert-topping-or-floor-wax.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">article by Crispin Cowan<\/a>, a security expert at Microsoft:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Making it possible for everyone to run as Standard User is the real long term security value.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It is unfortunate that Microsoft has done a poor job of articulating the purpose of UAC (User Account Control) in Vista, but good that folk like Cowan are doing it now.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wlWriterSmartContent\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:4ac4327e-2ff7-4f44-a8f4-bbf006e89040\" style=\"padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px\">Technorati tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/uac\" rel=\"tag\">uac<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/vista\" rel=\"tag\">vista<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/microsoft\" rel=\"tag\">microsoft<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/security\" rel=\"tag\">security<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good article by Crispin Cowan, a security expert at Microsoft: Making it possible for everyone to run as Standard User is the real long term security value. It is unfortunate that Microsoft has done a poor job of articulating the purpose of UAC (User Account Control) in Vista, but good that folk like Cowan are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/600-why-uac-is-mostly-not-a-security-boundary.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why UAC is (mostly) not a security boundary<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,75,93,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft","category-security","category-vista","category-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}