News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:Inexcusable insecurity in Windows by userbinator on Sunday November 08, 2020 @05:57PM (#25029879)
IMHO it's not a problem as you should treat Windows as a single-user OS anyway, and UAC is just a nuisance that gets in the way.
Re:Inexcusable insecurity in Windows by snazz on Sunday November 08, 2020 @06:01PM (#25029911)
A separation between root/Administrator and your normal user account is useful. On Windows, you often can't help but run semi-trusted proprietary software, so multi-user security technology (especially when combined with some type of mandatory access control) is very useful. I think that macOS Catalina does a better job of this: untrusted software running as your user account cannot read every file in your home directory by default.