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I mean, ok, but why?

The point of lowering application permission is not to prevent you from doing things. It’s to prevent the application to do things you don’t want.

That’s why people try to give apps as little permission as possible and only grant them when they are required.

Technically you are one vulnerability away from irremediably losing everything after opening a seemingly innocent file. I am actually convinced the sole reason it doesn’t happen is because it doesn’t make sense to target people doing that because they virtually don’t exist.



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