No, it is not a security vulnerability that there is no certificate of appreciation for reporting a bug April 18, 2023 Apr 18, 2023 04/18/23 Raymond Chen It wasn't even a bug report.
Why is there a large gap between some of the Windows system metrics indices? April 10, 2023 Apr 10, 2023 04/10/23 Raymond Chen An artifact of the internal implementation.
Adventures in application compatibility: The case of the jump into the middle of an instruction from nowhere March 24, 2023 Mar 24, 2023 03/24/23 Raymond Chen Another rogue patcher.
Why does the usage of the initial registers of a Win32 process depend on whether it is a 32-bit or 64-bit process? March 21, 2023 Mar 21, 2023 03/21/23 Raymond Chen Well, I mean, it's a different processor.
Microspeak: Baseball card March 7, 2023 Mar 7, 2023 03/7/23 Raymond Chen A one-page summary, and this time we mean it.
Once you give away the farm, you can’t take it back: Recovering from a rogue administrator February 28, 2023 Feb 28, 2023 02/28/23 Raymond Chen Who knows what happened to it while you weren't looking.
Microspeak: Light reading (ironic) February 21, 2023 Feb 21, 2023 02/21/23 Raymond Chen Just a fun diversion.
It rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway: Reading the user’s saved passwords February 6, 2023 Feb 6, 2023 02/6/23 Raymond Chen Only the user can read their own saved passwords, so you must already have gained total control over the user.
It rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway: Attacking a user by modifying that user’s files January 18, 2023 Jan 18, 2023 01/18/23 Raymond Chen You're just attacking yourself.
A trio of dubious denial-of-service security vulnerability reports which are just style points piled on top of nothing January 17, 2023 Jan 17, 2023 01/17/23 Raymond Chen You could have accomplished the same thing with a garbage file.