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		ComodoHacker on Nov 26, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Multi-Account Containers to “Exchange messages wit... You do know the reasoning behind the Least Privilege Principle, don't you? It's not that developers are untrustworthy, it's that software have vulnerabilities, and they get exploited.

Gigachad on Nov 26, 2021 [–]

The permissions being requested are things that all native apps get by default. I’m not worried about trusted code getting permission to something I trusted a hundred other apps with previously.

ComodoHacker on Nov 27, 2021 | [–]

Those other apps don't regularly download and execute arbitrary third-party code, though.

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