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Re:Multi-Account Containers to “Exchange messages with progr... by ComodoHacker on Friday November 26, 2021 @09:44AM (#29350616)
You do know the reasoning behind the Least Privilege Principle, don't you?

It's not that developers are untrustworthy, it's that software have vulnerabilities, and they get exploited.

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Re:Multi-Account Containers to “Exchange messages with progr... by Gigachad on Friday November 26, 2021 @05:34PM (#29354954)
The permissions being requested are things that all native apps get by default. I’m not worried about trusted code getting permission to something I trusted a hundred other apps with previously.
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Re:Multi-Account Containers to “Exchange messages with progr... by ComodoHacker on Saturday November 27, 2021 @03:35AM (#29358616)
Those other apps don't regularly download and execute arbitrary third-party code, though.
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