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Comment Re:Here's a useful summary (Score 1) 85

Yes, that is the part of the issue.

A lot of windows drivers have configuration tools to be installed with the driver. Windows update is downloading and installing a driver automatically from Microsoft Update Catalogue. Windows Update runs these as SYSTEM (to specifically ignore UAC prompts).

In this specific case, it is launching an interactive installer with a file location picker for install location. Saide file location picker is standard Windows API provided picker of explorer.exe instance, all Razer code is doing at that point is ask windows API to get location from user. However windows API is likely to have other issues like this, usually it isn't a problem as such installs would be after an affirmative UAC by an administrator user (you can go and run the same installer.exe from Razer's website and find the first thing it does is ask for UAC elevation), in the name of ease of use, Windows Update is bypassing that by running the installers as SYSTEM, if installer is then interactive it is likely there is control somewhere that can be subverted.

Comment Re:Here's a useful summary (Score 1) 85

I'm not, I specifically pointed at one feature, which is when windows update downloads a package from the windows update catalogue.

Don't be so sure I don't know what I'm talking about when I'm refering to a specific thing where I do know there is a check happening:
https://superuser.com/question...

Comment Re: The issue seems to be the Select Folder dialog (Score 1) 85

Even Razer's installer does this... Go download it from Razer's website and run it. Boom, UAC prompt. Windows Update is running it as SYSTEM and so it say do I need to elevate, no, continue, if windows update ran the windows 10 media creation tool as SYSTEM, the same issue would apply with the save iso file location.

Comment Re:I think we need better context. (Score 1) 139

The line here is in the law:

(1)A person is guilty of an offence ifâ"

        (a)he causes a computer to perform any function with intent to secure access to any program or data held in any computer [F1, or to enable any such access to be secured] ;

        (b)the access he intends to secure [F2, or to enable to be secured,] is unauthorised; and

        (c)he knows at the time when he causes the computer to perform the function that that is the case.

In this case, the police asked questions and determined he did not knows at the time that access was unauthorised

Comment Re:I think we need better context. (Score 1) 139

No, but the law in question:

(1)A person is guilty of an offence ifâ"
        (a)he causes a computer to perform any function with intent to secure access to any program or data held in any computer [F1, or to enable any such access to be secured] ;

        (b)the access he intends to secure [F2, or to enable to be secured,] is unauthorised; and

        (c)he knows at the time when he causes the computer to perform the function that that is the case.

Ultimately this means he didn't meet the intent element of knowing his access was unauthorised when he just clicked the link rather than go through the passworded wordpress page.

Comment He wants faster without regard to safety? (Score 5, Insightful) 93

Really? Lets look at that optical mouse of his:

He invented and patented an early version of the optical mouse.

The first two optical mice, first demonstrated by two independent inventors in December 1980, had different basic designs.

Like all early optical mice. their debut product relied on a special metallic and reflective mousepad printed with a square grid of grey and blue tracking lines.

The other type, invented by Richard F. Lyon of Xerox, used a 16-pixel visible-light image sensor with integrated motion detection on the same nâ'type (5 Âm) MOS integrated circuit chip.

A surface-independent coherent light optical mouse design was patented by Stephen B. Jackson at Xerox in 1988.

So yeah, his was one of several early versions, he patented it so others couldn't use it for 20 years, and this without pointing out that modern optical mice are descendants of the rival and superior dresign out of Xerox by Lyon and improved by Jackson which he did not beat the invention of.

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