GeekyBear 23 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.

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esseph 14 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.

GeekyBear 2 hours ago

If the user manually creating a shortcut is so dangerous, why did Microsoft remove that permissions prompt when they fixed their terrible initial UAC implementation?