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Normal home users are administrators, they have to go through the pop-up to run things with escalated privileges but that, according to Microsoft, is not a secu
by tinus_hn 4y ago
Normal home users are administrators, they have to go through the pop-up to run things with escalated privileges but that, according to Microsoft, is not a security boundary.
- Arnavion 4y agoIf we're considering Administrator / root access as trivially available, then any exploit becomes trivial itself. Even on a BIOS machine root can overwrite the MBR / kernel / initramfs to contain an exploit.
- tinus_hn 4y agoSorry, the argument is: > Windows doesn’t allow you to do that by default unless you’re an admin. The refutation is that by default users are an admin. So no, they’re not protected against persistent threats like UEFI malware.
- Arnavion 4y agoYes, and thus I made the comment that I made.