BoyOfDestiny
August 7th, 2007, 09:12 AM
I believe this one is appropriate for Community Cafe, rather than OS specific section (mods feel free to move it though.)
"August 06, 2007 (Computerworld) -- Microsoft Corp. last week slammed the door on a free utility out of Australia that outflanked one of the company's touted security features in Windows Vista, by having the program's digital certificate revoked.
Users took Microsoft to task for the move, noting the slippery slope the company was walking on, with some blasting the vendor for playing "software police."
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=windows&articleId=9029161&taxonomyId=125
Definitely a slippery slope. The bottom line is Microsoft can decide what you can install and run. if you don't like it, you either need new hardware, or use something else. Because they can just stop it from functioning.
In this case, the 'naughty' software let's you install unsigned drivers. Do these certificates really prevent workarounds, or can a company just pay the fee for the cert?
You can see the same level of control in regard to ssl certs.
http://www.proper.com/root-cert-problem/
Again workarounds should be possible.
I'm not a fan of this.
"August 06, 2007 (Computerworld) -- Microsoft Corp. last week slammed the door on a free utility out of Australia that outflanked one of the company's touted security features in Windows Vista, by having the program's digital certificate revoked.
Users took Microsoft to task for the move, noting the slippery slope the company was walking on, with some blasting the vendor for playing "software police."
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=windows&articleId=9029161&taxonomyId=125
Definitely a slippery slope. The bottom line is Microsoft can decide what you can install and run. if you don't like it, you either need new hardware, or use something else. Because they can just stop it from functioning.
In this case, the 'naughty' software let's you install unsigned drivers. Do these certificates really prevent workarounds, or can a company just pay the fee for the cert?
You can see the same level of control in regard to ssl certs.
http://www.proper.com/root-cert-problem/
Again workarounds should be possible.
I'm not a fan of this.