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Mozilla Strategizes With Microsoft On Security

Können Open Source Entwickler von Microsoft lernen? Klar können sie! Wer sonst ausser Microsoft liefert Software in solchen Massen aus? Wer sonst kennt die Tücken eines wirklich großen unterschiedlichen Marlets auf dem Softwaresektor?
Das scheinen auch die Entwickler von Mozilla begriffen haben, die sich mir dem Microsoft Vista Team getroffen haben:

Mozilla developers who spent several days this week with the Windows Vista team at Microsoft's Redmond, Wash. campus said that they're considering implementing a security feature in the upcoming OS to better protect future versions of Firefox from attack.
Vladimir Vukievi, who was one of the Mozilla team to take up Microsoft's August offer of Vista assistance, said that Vista's "Low Integrity Mode" might make Firefox less susceptible to exploits.
Low Integrity Mode, which is part of the Vista User Account Control (UAC) technologies that are meant to make it more difficult for attackers to install their code on PCs, is similar to "sandbox" techniques that wall off an application from the rest of the operating system. By reducing the browser's rights, Low Integrity Mode prevents a compromised or vulnerable application from making changes to the OS or other apps. Internet Explorer 7 in Vista will make use of Low Integrity Mode as part of what Microsoft calls "Protected Mode." "We spent a while talking to members of both the UAC team and the IE team about ideas on how to structure our app for the lowest permission level," wrote Vukievi on his blog. "I have some ideas on how we could do this in a cross-platform way, taking advantage of UAC on Vista, and dropping privileges on Linux /Mac OS"

https://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20061007/tc_cmp/193105163

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