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by nulld3v 66 days ago
I'm not sure I fully understand you. All those OSes try very, very hard to disambiguate between apps and the user itself?
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A program touches a system file. Is it due to its own logic, or is it your editor saving a file?
Pretend you’re the operating system for a moment. What does “the user” look like, if not an app doing things?