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Yeah, this was an era where just opening the wrong email would fill your computer with malware. Even “legitimate” companies have exploited users to the extent
by Gigachad 2y ago
Yeah, this was an era where just opening the wrong email would fill your computer with malware.
Even “legitimate” companies have exploited users to the extent they physically could, resulting in the situation where we are currently at where the OS makers have to fight back for the users.
- Sophira 2y ago> opening the wrong email would fill your computer with malware While true, this likely isn't a situation where prompts would have helped, sadly. That's a problem that was fixed by hardening email clients.
- Gigachad 2y agoIt’s all part of a general shift to security and privacy. An invisible app sitting in the background recording the screen without the users knowledge is really really bad. So dangerous that it deserves a weekly prompt to make sure you really know it’s happening.
- zjp 2y agoThat's true. I'm not even going to argue that guardrails are bad on balance, I'm just dispositionally against them if I can't turn them off (to Windows's credit, you can disable UAC). If this goes away when you disable SIP, that's fine.