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Martin Brinkmann over at ghacks.net brings us info on Windows 10 security changes:
The company started to open up only recently and reveal additional information about Windows 10. It published a lengthy blog post today on the Windows For Your Business blog that details security improvements coming to the operating system.
Aimed at business and enterprise customers, it provides insight for consumers as well.
One of the changes discussed in the blog post is how Microsoft plans to change how users identify themselves on the system. Microsoft plans to eliminate single-factor authentication systems such as user/password log ins by building improved protection right into the operating system.
Yeah, I know we're way off normal in Linux usership around here but we still have relatives whose computers we have to fix, so...
(Score: 2) by urza9814 on Monday October 27 2014, @04:39PM
I can't tell you how much software I've installed that has included an instruction along the lines of 'If you get a security exception saying this program is not signed, tell it to install anyway'
So now they'll just include instructions saying how to disable the whitelist feature, and users will blindly follow along whether they're installing Free Puppy Screesaver 2000 or an Oracle database...
Not that I'm not a bit concerned -- at work we're using Windows XP laptops, and I don't have admin rights to mine (apparently *some people* have admin rights, there doesn't appear to be any logic in place on that.) It's also fairly common for us to pass around software like WinSCP or Notepad++ or portable browsers. Right now that works fine even without admin rights, because these programs don't need to be installed into the system itself. But if they change to only allow running signed apps?
Maybe it'll be a big enough problem that they'll give me a Linux system. I mean I'm doing all my work on *nix servers anyway...well, that's a nice dream at least...