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Re:Samsung disabling Windows Update? by xg15 on Wednesday June 24, 2015 @01:20PM (#9773039)
Why is having a home directory bad?
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Re:Samsung disabling Windows Update? by pjmlp on Thursday June 25, 2015 @03:31AM (#9776444)
Any application running under the user id has full access to his private data.

Add the capability to do network communication and suddenly the all wolrd has access to $ HOME.

This is why in the container model of mobile OS and Windows/Mac OS X sandboxes, applications only get to see file handles to files choosen by the user.

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