esseph 21 hours ago

Programs running during the user session are often running as that user.

The "correct answer" to this is probably that there isn't a good answer here.

Security is a damn minefield and it's getting worse every day.

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GeekyBear 17 hours ago

There is no universe in which it makes sense to ask the very user who just created a shortcut if they should have permission to create that shortcut.

This is why Microsoft was so widely mocked for just how bad their initial implementation of UAC was.

esseph 9 hours ago

"iPhone Shortcuts always asks permission to access file"

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/254931245

iOS Shortcut danger

https://cyberpress.org/unveiling-risks-of-ios-shortcuts/

But anywho, cve.org lists 78 shortcut vulnerabilities across many platforms.

I know you'd like to believe the world we live in shouldn't require permissions for a user to create a shortcut and then access it, but that... Is actually the world we live in, and have been in for a very long time.

Security is hard and it's not getting any easier as system complexity increases.

If you don't believe me, ask your favorite LLM. I asked Gemini and got back what I expected to.