Going Deep: Richard Ward - Engineering security into Windows Vista
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Richard is an architect on the kernel team on Windows Vista. In other words, everything in Windows builds on top of his team's work. Here Charles Torre has a 52 minute conversation with him about the kinds of things that are being done deep inside Windows
from a security perspective. But you'll learn more about the innards of Windows than you might expect from this conversation.
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Now, this code annotation thing Richard mentioned.. is that something us normal users can leverage, too? I only know about c++ annotation capabilities in team systems so far.
Cheers,
martin
Fixed, but not until the cache expires (we need to work on that...)
C
It seems Windows Vista has a few basic improvements in security, including the IPv6 stack but the big thing is UAC. Lets just hope that backwards compatability with administrator accessed programs work without fuss.
Once again though I'm getting that flipped green video output. It is very strange and rather annoying. Has anyone else noticed this problem with Channel 9 and .NET show videos?
Regards,
Vincent
Interresting. Try and go to 22 minuts into the interview, and listen to what Charles says.
Is he really saying, that he is a hacker, or is he just using it as an example?
Fine video, but a few problems.
Richard is hard to understand, as he is speaking very low.
Theres a damn light beside his screen, that makes it hard to see his face.
I would probably say he is a black hat hacker.
A workaround for this is to either download the video or view it in 'full screen', which allows you to boost the volume for speech (adjust the frequency, push up 8Khz slider) using the Graphic Equalizer (View / Enhancements / graphic equalizer)
Looks like we have a bug in our Postlink update code... I'll fix this on Monday.
Sorry folks. No download until Monday.
C
I have a question for anyone who can answer it. Why the bloody hell doesn't the protocol mms work in Windows Media Player 10!?!
It so so very frustrating!
One of the things that was touched on in the video was garbage collection / managed code at the kernel level of the system architecture. This is very exciting in the sense that it validates .NET and makes it something that we programmers perceive as the way to program - if the big dogs are doing it and trust it all the way to the kernel, it's good enough for me.
This isn't going to eliminate the performance problems associated with managed code, though. In fact, it could exascerbate it. When talking about these problems, why don't I ever hear people talk about possible hardware solutions to things like garbage collection / memory allocation / etc. My school is doing research in this area:
http://www.csrl.unt.edu/~kavi/Research/IRAM.html
I realize that this is far off, but the discussion was pretty far into the future as well, so I was just curious why I've never heard anyone mention implementing hardware solutions for these problems.
Although I'm not on the team that is doing this research, I've seen some of the performance improvements they are touting just re-implementing java's GC in hardware and they are impressive. Is this something Microsoft is investigating? It seems like if everyone believes in managed code as much as I think they do, then someone should be willing to burn that belief onto silicon.
I even had some services fail even the parental feature was turned off, (e.g. Windows live feeds at www.live.com) and the Windows live messenger! The only way that my sone's account could get these to work was to change his account type to administrator! If this feature does not work on such basic components, I wonder how useful it will be?
Note: When I turned off the parental controls for my son's account, from my admin account, it still reported that "some parental controls" are still active when my son signed in with his account, and asked confirmation to remove these and logoff again!
In another note, when I accesed the "user" folders from my admin account, this automatically added my user's permissions to these accounts. However this causes repeated warnings on the other standard users, even when programs deleted items in the "TEMP" folders, that these files are shared by other users.
Perhaps these are still open issues i.e. RC1 hopefully, although I must say that my first impression did hit a low!
Best regards,
Jesmond
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