THE VIDEO SHELF · windows security
BlueHat IL 2023 - David Weston - Default Security
David Weston's BlueHat IL 2023 talk traces the evolution of Windows security and previews Windows 11 and hardware advances. It ends with upcoming changes such as Rust in the kernel and fonts, signed binaries and adminless Windows.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN uses it as the primary source for Microsoft's Rust adoption and its reasoning on TPM and security requirements.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Microsoft Israel R&D Center
- Topic
- windows security
- Format
- talk
- Level
- intermediate
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 3
- HN mentions in dataset
- 12
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2023–2025
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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[VIDEO] This is the announcement video. its about an hour long but much of it is very interesting. "Adminless windows" sounds very interesting.
senectus1 on Hacker News · 2023-04
In Microsoft is busy rewriting core Windows library code in memory-safe RustLink to the talk - [VIDEO] (timestamped to the part about Rust) The speaker covers a bunch of areas and the final part of the talk (around 10 minutes) is about Microsoft introducing Rust in some self-contained areas in Windows. Some highlights: - Their focus …
nindalf on Hacker News · 2023-04
In Microsoft is to enable Rust use for Windows 11 kernel> just to make existing CPUs obsolete and keep Intel in business. Bizarre take. It's not random, it's specifically CPUs that support modern hardware security mitigations. There's a pretty great talk from Bluehat a few days ago that goes into why Microsoft is doing this: …
Hawxy on Hacker News · 2023-04
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