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Microsoft has extended the support life of its enhanced mitigation toolkit (EMET) affording Windows 8 laggards an extra 18 months of protection. EMET adds extra defences to older versions of Windows, dating all the way back to Vista. Among the improvements it offers are address space layout randomisation and data execution …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
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    BUt it's funny that in one of the patches released in the past days...

    ... MS explicitly wrote "no GWX or upgrade functionalities in this update" (or something alike, it's one of the patches dedicated to update the "application compatibility" telemetry).

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  2. Tom Paine

    Trump was strongly in favour of Apple unlocking that iPhone on demand from LEA, wasn't it? Given the way that several US corps have given the appearance of craven submission to fear of angry tweets knocking their stock price, I wonder if the tech industry will stick to their guns in the way they claim to have been doing for the last 5-10 years?

    Time to buy the latest OpenBSD distro...

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