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From: candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.comp.os.windows-11
Subject: Re: Why is Microsoft Smart App so damned retarded?
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2025 18:50:04 -0000 (UTC)
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Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> wrote at 15:50 this Thursday (GMT):
> On Thu, 3/27/2025 8:36 AM, CrudeSausage wrote:
>
>> 
>> At the very least, Microsoft should have understood that both ArmouryCrate 
>> (used by most ASUS hardware) and Samsung Magician (used by most Samsung SSDs) 
>> are legitimate pieces of software and whitelisted them. The fact that even in
>> those cases it feels the need to "detect" whether they are good or bad is troubling.
>> For now, I feel better disabling the setting.
>
> Microsoft wants to remove *all* third party drivers. That's
> the long term intent. The "Vulnerable Driver Blocklist" is an
> interim solution, until they are in control of all the drivers.
>
> They want to own all of Ring 0.
> And you can have a portion of Ring 3 :-)
>
>    Paul


While that would probably be bad, it woud at least prevent some god
awful anticheats and drm "solutions" from working. Maybe.
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