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Re:Dotfile madness by elihu on Saturday February 02, 2019 @09:20PM (#19067367)
> The current desktop security model comes from when people mostly ran the programs that came with the OS and programs they wrote themself.

Even that isn't particularly safe.

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Re:Dotfile madness by ndnxhs on Saturday February 02, 2019 @09:36PM (#19067451)
It was good enough to stop bob on floor 5 from hogging all the CPU and preventing Jim's buggy script from deleting everyone's emails.
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