[ros-dev] dealing with insecure-by-inattention Windows software

[Jasper van de Gronde]

KJKHyperion wrote:
> Wesley Parish wrote:
> 
>> "insecure-by-inattention" - by that I mean software that must run as 
>> super-user or otherwise (otherstupidly) it won't run at all.
>>
> read all you can find on the new security features in Windows Vista. The 
> security model has been enhanced with various forms of Mandatory Access 
> Control - among the many of them, the fact that all users (except 
> System, i.e. services) are entirely powerless by default, even 
> administrators, and a reauthentication is required every time privileges 
> are needed (the user experience is pretty much identical to MacOSX) - 
> and the application compatibility layer has been enhanced to the point 
> it now fully implements a virtual filesystem view and a virtual registry 
> view.

Are you saying that with Vista it's possible to give a program its own 
virtual view of the system which it can read and modify to its heart's 
content without affecting other programs? That would be simply divine.