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A better example would be requiring the mailman to obtain written permission to step on your property every day. Convenience trumps maximal security for most people.




The early version of UAC in Windows did that…

Asking continuously is worse than not asking at all…


Some of the stuff that I install is actually meant to behave like malware.

But fine lock windows down for normal users as long as I can still disable all the security. We don't need another Apple.


I would configure mailman with permanent write access to the mailbox area

That's what I with my sandbox right now


With systemd or firejail it's quite easy to do this sort of thing on linux.



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