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"Millennials are killing Unix" — well put — in what world does a system shell application need permissions to access files?! It's supposed to let you poke under the hood, shouldn't it have that permission to begin with?

Plus, if drag-and-drop somehow enables Terminal to get that file permission, then I guess either of two things: (a) Terminal is special -cased to be the only such app capable of gaining that kind of permission from a drag-and-drop, in which case well why didn't they just grant it permission from the start; or (b) it can be exploited by any other app to gain similar permissions on drag-and-drop of a file onto the app... ?




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