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Story: Coders claim bypass of Vista security feature

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Posted by: ator1940 (Tuesday 29 April 2008, 1:43 PM)

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designed to "annoy users"

It did its job, to annoy. A simple root password would have been a better choice. My new laptop only had vista on for 2 days, but the UAC popped up enough times to encourage me to upgrade to Linux.

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The internet is going to have do a lot of maturing before it is ready for this kind of traffic. Security is always going to be a problem, connectivity is poor, and most business's are unwilling for their employees to have open access.

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