New Microsoft patent may put Linux security components at risk

Courtesy Linux Today  Fri, 11/13/2009 - 06:34

The H Open: "Microsoft has been granted a patent on a privilege escalation system which appears to cover the functionality of PolicyKit, which is used for fine grain authorisation on Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE and other Linux systems."

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