Perhaps I am missing something here, but aren’t we are talking about the ability for a file browser to read a little bit of meta data out of a file? I don’t un

Perhaps I am missing something here, but aren’t we are talking about the ability for a file browser to read a little bit of meta data out of a file? I don’t understand why reading the metadata of a file (even of an executable file) should need heightened privileges. What am I missing?