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Windows 7 "Security Flaw" Really Is By Design
Published 2/1/2009 by infoweek@methvin.com (Dave Methvin) at InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs
Blogger Long Zheng is raising concern about a supposed Windows 7 security bug that he discovered. He's shown that it is possible to push keystrokes into the User Account Control dialog to turn off UAC completely. Although Zheng contacted Microsoft about the problem, they insist it's "by design."
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