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XP is also unfixable. You just know more about web development than you do about permissions security.

• wtallis 16y ago
  So, are you saying that Windows 7 is significantly more secure than XP can ever be?
  • Locke1689 16y ago
    Yes. A number of security augmentations in Windows 7 required significant modifications to the operating system kernel and user space environment (almost to the point of a rewrite in some cases). These modifications cannot happen in Windows XP without turning Windows XP into Windows 7.
    • mixmastamyk 16y ago
      Not enabled by default making them less effective than they should be.
      • Locke1689 16y ago
        What are you talking about? This is prima facie untrue.
        • mixmastamyk 16y ago
          http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Execution_Prevention#Windows http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Execution_Prevention#Windo... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address_space_layout_randomization#Microsoft_Windows http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address_space_layout_randomizat... Backward compatibility prevents most of these from being utilized fully, a shame.
          • Locke1689 16y ago
            ASLR is mostly enabled, especially in 64-bit binaries. W^X protection is always enabled on 64-bit binaries. Service hardening and privilege separation are enabled by default always.
• mixmastamyk 16y ago
  Not true. First of all, I wouldn't use Windows at all on a machine I depended on for security. The fact is my XP box has never had a bug on it. It's fully patched, services off, behind a nat, with firefox and noscript. Acl's can be improved but I've never bothered. I admit it takes a lot of upfront prep to get XP safe to use, but it can be done if one has the knowledge. Who said I know anything about web development? Greybeard here that learned on the Vic-20.
  • Locke1689 16y ago
    So then you know about things like ASLR, service hardening, and default permissions separation right?