• ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net
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    5 months ago

    Right?

    This reeks of inexperience.

    We lock things down because a malicious program can easily be “owned” by the user through stupid choices. And now you got viruses.

    This is a way to stupid proof things. And the workaround isnt difficult, but it’s to stop people like Andrew. And so far, success.

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      5 months ago

      Why are you assuming so much about Andrew?

      What are these workarounds? And why are they workarounds and not standard procedures?

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        5 months ago

        The workaround is to log in as an administrator and give his user account the permission to modify the files. Why is it not standard procedure? Because giving normal users the permission to edit everything by default instead of just files that they own is how people used to be able to delete system32 and brick their windows install.