Retired Microsoft engineer Davepl discusses "back doors" in Windows, the implications, and how the software developer protects against such attacks from rogues, hackers, and nation-states. Understand how back doors are like the Follina zero-day exploit in Office, giving complete control of the system to the attacker.

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0:00 - Start
2:50 - Zero-Days like Follina vs Back Doors
5:12 - Code Compartmentalization
8:06 - Security Credentials
9:15 - Open Source (Linux v Windows)
10:50 - Dave Pronounces Trisquel badly
11:00 - Kernel Checkins
11:35 - The Build Lab
12:23 - Ownership breeds Responsibility
12:45 - The Code Review
13:25 - An exception
15:13 - Multiple Layers

Remember by and large I am referring to things that happened about 25 years ago, so you cannot judge contemporary Windows by it. And for comparison, that's when Linux was still Minix :-)

As always, all content and opinions are mine only, (c) 2022 Plummer's Software LLC. I am not now nor have I ever been a spokesperson for Microsoft, and retired from my technical role almost 20 years ago. I'm now working on a episode about the Follina zero-day exploit, so if you have any juicy details on that, please let me know!