The H: New Microsoft patent may put Linux security components at risk http://www.digitalmajority.org/forum/t-196513/the-h:new-microsoft-patent-may-put-linux-security-components Posts in the discussion thread "The H: New Microsoft patent may put Linux security components at risk" - 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. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:32:29 +0000 http://www.digitalmajority.org/forum/t-196513#post-632215 The H: New Microsoft patent may put Linux security components at risk http://www.digitalmajority.org/forum/t-196513/the-h:new-microsoft-patent-may-put-linux-security-components#post-632215 Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:51:38 +0000 ggiedke 32664 "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."

Source: http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/New-Microsoft-patent-may-put-Linux-security-components-at-risk-857848.html

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