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I am Jack's synaesthesia.
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What people who care about security want -- finely grained permissions that guarantee security boundaries, at the expense of bad UX

What most end users want -- for the machine to do what they want, as often as possible, while bothering them as little as possible

Windows' UAC journey is a microcosm of the space. The real long-term win is defining ground level permissions around common use cases, so that when composed they can alert as rarely as possible.

But that's an all-of-ecosystem change: the OS (providing usable boundaries), applications (updating to use minimal boundaries), and users (understanding what they'll need to approve/deny).

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