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Microsoft drops rush Internet Explorer fix for remote code exec hole

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Re: Pro Tip

>On Windows - unlike Unix - your identity is separated from your privileges.

Modern UNIX systems have RBAC implementations that allow granular access to files and resourced and role shifting without changing identity,

Unfortunately they are rarely used for anything outside of the UNIX vendor provided tools (and not much even there) , as there is far too much historical cruft that doesn't know about this stuff.

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