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Long time gone and not coming back

It's been a long time since I posted here, and that's because I left Microsoft back in November of 2005. As I was no longer working in Windows Security I no longer had anything to say on this subject and I didn't feel like this was the right place for
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Customer Feedback Wicki for Windows Security Access Control

Hi folks. My current possition at Microsoft is as a Program Manager (PM) on the Security User Experience team in the Windows Security Access Control (WSAC) group. I'm just posting this to mention a new set of Wiki pages at Channel9 that have been put
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Fear and Loathing in Las Seguridades (Security)

Fear. Anger. Distrust. These will motiviate users to change their behaviour when it comes to securing their computers At least that's the way Frank Hayes sees it in his article "Fear, Anger, Distrust" . Hayes discusses two surveys that came out last week:
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Usable Security - a new Usability and Security blog

Well, I'm a bit late to the party but that doesn't mean I can't still welcome Ping and his Usable Security blog to the intersection of User Experience Ave. and Security St. ;-) It's nice to see someone else blogging in this area. I look forward to reading
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Back in the Blogosphere

To anyone who follows my blog, my apologies for the three month-ish absence. Real life reared it's ugly head and various circumstances of health, happiness and quality of life collided, thereby requiring that I take a short leave of absence from work.
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mmmmmmmmmm..... This is not a Test. The World Is Flat. I Repeat, This is not a Test.... mmmmmmmmmm.....

Discussion of the New York Times article "It's a Flat World, After All" by Thomas L. Friedman, author of "The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century"
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LUA in the News

Check out an Infoworld article discussing LUA in Longhorn
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strawberryJAMM moves to Blogs @ TechNet

blogs.TechNet.com has officially gone live and "strawberryJAMM's Security and User Experience WebLog" has moved off blogs.MSDN.com

Adobe Photoshop CS activation doesn't play well with LUA

The activation process in Adobe Photoshop CS doesn't work for LUA users because of the technique that was implemented to validate activation every time the program is launched. There are workarounds, but none are particularly ideal.
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Internet Explorer 7

Today, in his keynote for the 2005 RSA conference, Bill Gates announced, among other things, that Microsoft would be releasing a new version of Internet Explorer (IE7) for the XP SP2 platform.
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More Tips and Tricks for the LUA User

Aaron Margosis has posted four more columns with LUA Tips and Tricks on his "Non-Admin Blog"
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Geo-Blog - Where Blogs Meet Maps and Location

At BlogMap you enter information about your location (city, zip/postal code, country) and your blog feed URL and then you can use a simple URL to display or link to a map that shows your location.
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A New Wiki for the LUA / Non-Admin community

The "least-privileged user" concept with Windows is slowly picking up speed and getting ready to take off - come check out the Non-Admin Wiki that was just launched.
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Least-Privileged Users, Add/Remove Programs and System Management Server

Did you know that installations published to enterprise employees using Systems Management Server (SMS) can be successfully installed by a non-Admin user using the "Add New Programs" view of the Add/Remove Programs (ARP) control panel applet?
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"Using a Least-Privileged User Account" OR "Woohoo, I've been published on microsoft.com!"

An article I wrote, "Using a Least-Privileged User Account (LUA)", was published on TechNet as part of the monthly Microsoft Security Newsletter for January 2005. It takes a brief look at a few of the key issues around the principle of "least-privilege" and running as LUA on the Windows OS.
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