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Windows isn't unique, it shares the same design flaw as Linux and MacOs, etc. Ambient Authority is an incredibly bad design choice for an operating system.

Until capability based security[1] becomes widely deployed, we'll keep blaming the wrong things, instead of Ambient Authority.

This is not permission management as practiced on smartphones and tablets.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capability-based_security



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