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antiframetoday at 1:53 AM2 repliesview on HN

Not terribly fair. When Windows decided running everything as administrator was bad and to add a visual sudo-like prompt, Apple made fun of them for it, but it was Microsoft reacting to a changing threat landscape then too.


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charcircuittoday at 6:47 AM

UAC is not a security boundary. Malware can bypass it if it wants.

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klodolphtoday at 2:30 AM

Vista gets maligned but UAC is a good feature to have around, and Vista introduced it.

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