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Comment by ruthmarx

> lol UAC is such a lazy shitshow of a security implementation…

It's by far the most secure and well thought out implementation of an elevation prompt across all operating systems.

A lot of thought went into designing the Secure Desktop [1] used by UAC, and really mac and linux not having something similar is an embarrassment.

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/uac/user-acc...

parent ruthmarx 2 years ago

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