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snotrockets on May 15, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: The New Google Maps

Only to untrusted binaries on your machine.

Not caring about attacks from the local user is what got Microsoft tons of (justified) bad PR not ten years ago.

lilyball on May 16, 2013 [–]

Once you're running an untrusted binary on your machine, the game's already over.

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