Isn’t it enough to just enter your password once to login, then receive a warning whenever you’re about to do something potentially dangerous?

If it’s such a big security risk, how come the most popular and widely used operating systems in the world and their users seem to be unaffected by it?

I guarantee, most new users coming to Linux from Windows/macOS are going to laugh and look at you funny if you try to justify entering your password again and again and again.

  • originalucifer
    8•6 months ago

    no. no reason to expand poor practices into linux because microsoft fucked up. we need ‘least access required’ methodology even at home because the world is full of bad actors.

    if microsoft had correclty implemented security into dos/winx.x we wouldnt have had half the virus issues we did in the late 90s.

    i think the other half was caused by activex