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Agreed. Raymond Chen refers to these types of problems as involving "being on the other side of this airtight hatchway": http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/arc

• JoachimSchipper 14y ago
  That's not entirely true - non-privileged local users are not supposed to be able to bluescreen the system. Note that, e.g. Terminal Server exists.
  • mjpa 14y ago
    You can cause a blue screen by trying to copy the device context of the screen to itself with BitBlt - a stupid thing to do but still causes a blue screen
    • potkor 14y ago
      Sounds interesting. Anyone else have evidence for Microsoft's policy of ignoring local DoS vulns?
    • kevingadd 14y ago
      That sounds like a video driver bug, though.
    • kyberias 14y ago
      Most probably not universally true. Care to provide more information?
• potkor 14y ago
  Actually, Chen implies that it would be a security bug if an unprivileged user could do it on her own: "Enabling the kernel debugger requires administrative privileges, so it's not like unprivileged users can force a system halt on their own".