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What is very nice about this is that he took the trouble to do it and not only that but he also made it open source. Aside from the obvious, usual benefits of that it means that people can create their own variations and the cyber crooks will never know what they are getting into or what will happen when they do. They can program contingencies and plan ahead a ply or two but so can the the customized honey pots. The only thing is, things will...

how would you go about writing a virus for an OS which provides the user with an actual root login, full disclosure as to which processes are accessing the kernel, full process tracing, etc etc?

It's not that hard. Just steal your facebook login and use it to log into digg.

Instead of running a user account without admin it emulates a user account over root. UAC does not work against most viruses.

I'm very well aware of Digg's pro-Microsoft bias. I'm not sure it's entirely genuine (i.e. it could be astroturfing), but in any case it has no bearing on the merit of my arguments. That said I wish you no ill will, I work with all three main desktop OSes and like some Microsoft products (I actually develop games for the Xbox360, which I think is a great console despite early hardware flaws). I will, however make a last...

Actually what will never change is that fact that you have no idea how to Stop Background Tasks, Clean The Registry, Defrag Your Hard-Drive, or Clean Out Your Temp Files. Therefore, you will never experience the speed under Windows that most of us do. How does it feel to be completely ignorant?

"Regarding file formats, if Office 2010 still uses a format that is incompatible with the ISO standard, will you publicly admit you were wrong?" Yes, I would. I have no problem admitting when I am wrong. However, I hope you realize that the current draft of the standard does specify rules for using proprietary data within the file format under the section "Embedded Object Alternate Image Requests Types". So,...

Yeah. Letting only 3 of every 10 security risks through is a record Microsoft can be proud of.

That is why the only free speech is anonymous speech. Had this guy encrypted everything and powered off his machine when the Police arrived, they wouldn't have anything to change him with.

@king Yes, That user had to click to install viral software. The only reason the mac was hacked first is because the user on the other side was the stupidest of the crop.