Ah ah ah! You didn’t say the magic word!
sudo edit the file!
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Ah ah ah! You didn’t say the secret word right after!
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Think about this: let’s say you run a program. Do you want that program to be able to take over the computer and read all your files from now on and send the data to a remote third party?
Probably not.
Permissions were created to stop programs from doing that. By running most software without admin permissions you limit the scope of the damage the software can cause. Software you trust even less should be run with even fewer permissions than a normal user account.
The system is imperfect though. A capability-based system is better. It allows the user to control which specific features of the operating system a running program is allowed to access. For example, a program may request access to location services in order to access your GPS coordinates. You can deny this to prevent the program from tracking you without otherwise preventing the software from running.
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Visual representation of the first time I ever saw "owner: nobody"
"takeown /f c: icacls c:" changed my life. Windows literally has trusted installer listed as owning most of your hard drive on every fresh install, but that is negotiable. at least for the stuff you need.
Is this why people run Arch instead or atomic linux distros?
Lol, I had arch tell me that literally last night while I was updating Nvidia drivers. Just reopened dolphin as admin and deleted what I needed to.
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"Own me? Maybe my physical form - but I don't have to do shit for you if you don't treat me with respect! Want to edit that file without my permission? Go ahead and do it yourself - take a magnetic needle and open up the HDD case yourself!"
So... Go try that and notice Windows is basically always encrypted at rest nowadays.
You can always decap your TPM and use a STM to read the static charges on its memory... But, good luck doing that.
Wrong OS.