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Google denies disassembling Vista
Closed Published October 10th, 2008 in Browser Security, Google, Security
The source code underlying Google’s Chrome Web browser suggests that Google used a reverse-engineering technique called disassembly to figure out how to employ a useful Windows Vista security feature, but the company said it did not, in fact, do so.
The Chrome source code said a particular security feature available on Vista, Data Execution Prevention, can be used on Windows XP SP2 and Windows Server 2003 SP1, though it is not documented for the older operating systems. The source code also said the feature can be understood with a disassembler, a method of reverse-engineering that deconstructs a binary file–such as Windows–into instructions more easily understood by a human. Google denies disassembling Vista : News : Software – ZDNet Asia
