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iancarroll
8y ago
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A better rebuttal is that UAC is not a security boundary and bypassing it is trivial.
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dingo_bat
8y ago
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Has that been done? I have been thinking it's pretty secure!
iancarroll
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8y ago
Yes. UAC was not really designed as a security boundary in the first place.
Here are some public exploits for it:
https://github.com/hfiref0x/UACME
Dylan16807
8y ago
It's pretty bad. Even if you put it on max, disabling automatic elevation, there are still flaws that microsoft doens't bother to fix.
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