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Dec 11, 2007
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Exploiting the inattentive, episode 3: Confusing movie titles

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

In early 1997, the movie Fly Away Home, a film about a teenage girl and her father rescuing a family of geese (inspired by Operation Migration), was released on DVD. the movie was well-reviewed and even earned an Academy Award nomination. The very same weekend, the movie with the very similar name Follow Me Home was released in theaters. Its cr...

Non-ComputerExploiting the inattentive
Dec 11, 2007
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Why is my starting directory ignored when I elevate a command prompt?

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

Take a shortcut to the command prompt or some other Windows component, right-click it, and select "Run as Administrator." The "Start in" directory from the shortcut is ignored and you are always dropped into the system directory. Why is the starting directory ignored? To avoid a category of attacks (current directory attacks). According to the d...

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