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A user creating a shortcut manually is not something that requires a permissions prompt. If you want to teach users to ignore security prompts, then completely
by GeekyBear 1y ago
A user creating a shortcut manually is not something that requires a permissions prompt.
If you want to teach users to ignore security prompts, then completely pointless nagging is how you do it.
- esseph 1y agoPrograms running during the user session are often running as that user. The "correct answer" to this is probably that there isn't a good answer here. Security is a damn minefield and it's getting worse every day.
- GeekyBear 1y agoThere is no universe in which it makes sense to ask the very user who just created a shortcut if they should have permission to create that shortcut. This is why Microsoft was so widely mocked for just how bad their initial implementation of UAC was.
- esseph 1y ago"iPhone Shortcuts always asks permission to access file" https://discussions.apple.com/thread/254931245 https://discussions.apple.com/thread/254931245 iOS Shortcut danger https://cyberpress.org/unveiling-risks-of-ios-shortcuts/ https://cyberpress.org/unveiling-risks-of-ios-shortcuts/ But anywho, cve.org lists 78 shortcut vulnerabilities across many platforms. I know you'd like to believe the world we live in shouldn't require permissions for a user to create a shortcut and then access it, but that... Is actually the world we live in, and have been in for a very long time. Security is hard and it's not getting any easier as system complexity increases. If you don't believe me, ask your favorite LLM. I asked Gemini and got back what I expected to.
- GeekyBear 1y agoIf the user manually creating a shortcut is so dangerous, why did Microsoft remove that permissions prompt when they fixed their terrible initial UAC implementation?