Windows Vista introduced a whole new level of security thinking from Microsoft and while Microsoft never claimed that Vista couldn’t be cracked it did it’s best to stop anyone from succeeding. Romanian hacker Alex Ionescu has now published the tool D-Pin Purr at his website. This application makes it not only possible to remove the protection from protected services in Vista but also make your own services protected. Ionescu’s “proof of concept” is intended to show that there is a big, gray backside of using protected services. More about this in his blog.