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by euroclydon 2781 days ago
> but can't prevent local privilege escalation from non browser clients

That is such a different threat model though. A native app has a lot more permissions than a web page. Trying to protect one native app from another is not really done much. Like, are MS Word documents encrypted so Slack can't read them from disk?

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You can have multiple OS users on the same computer.