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by JoachimSchipper 4988 days ago
That's not entirely true - non-privileged local users are not supposed to be able to bluescreen the system. Note that, e.g. Terminal Server exists.
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You can cause a blue screen by trying to copy the device context of the screen to itself with BitBlt - a stupid thing to do but still causes a blue screen
Sounds interesting. Anyone else have evidence for Microsoft's policy of ignoring local DoS vulns?
That sounds like a video driver bug, though.
Most probably not universally true. Care to provide more information?