Monday, July 5, 2010

UAC - User Account Control

The Android permission security mechanism is not suppose to be as big of a pain in the neck as the Vista UAC.  Both let the user decide what risks they are willing to take.

UAC compared with Android premissions:  http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-12-15-n14.html

How to tweak UAC setting in Vista:  http://www.tweak-uac.com/what-is-uac/

This contains a nice description of UAC with a really cool parable or allegory:  http://netsecurity.about.com/od/quicktips/qt/UAC.htm

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