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Re:Lessons from last week’s cyberattack by xtreme on Monday May 15, 2017 @02:40AM (#14339622)
Why do you think people would treat them any differently from the UAC screen of Windows 7? That is, just click OK to grant whatever permission it wants, or disable it entirely to avoid the annoyance.
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Re:Lessons from last week’s cyberattack by eicnix on Monday May 15, 2017 @05:10AM (#14340182)
Thats probably true but you could enforce it at a corporate level with a whitelist of apps that should have access to certain permissions.
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