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Which is pretty much everyone reading HN.
by driverdan 11y ago
Which is pretty much everyone reading HN.
- coldtea 11y agoIn which case it's no different to Linux, OpenBSD or whatever. As long as its your account files that matter, and you're running an app un-sandboxed, then it has access to them. Nothing Windows or OS X particular about it. As about "ruining your system", no, without root privileges it cannot, in either OS X or Windows. Of course it can if there's a privilege escalation bug, but there are tons of those for GNU/Gnome/KDE packages too.