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I think that's just legacy holdover largely mitigated by some of the user account access control stuff introduced with Vista. Also, administrator isn't the same
by baby_souffle 1y ago
I think that's just legacy holdover largely mitigated by some of the user account access control stuff introduced with Vista. Also, administrator isn't the same as root. That would be more like system level access which is not the default level for Windows accounts.
- zorgmonkey 1y agoUAC is not a security boundary, it is instead considered a defense-in-depth feature (aka best effort but bypassable). This is officially documented by Microsoft in multiple places. [0] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/msrc/windows-security-servicing-criteria https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/msrc/windows-security-servic... [1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-server/windows-security/disable-user-account-control https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-serve...