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A better example would be requiring the mailman to obtain written permission to step on your property every day. Convenience trumps maximal security for most people.

>>lifeis+(OP)
I would configure mailman with permanent write access to the mailbox area

That's what I with my sandbox right now

>>lifeis+(OP)
The early version of UAC in Windows did that…

Asking continuously is worse than not asking at all…

>>BobbyT+mr
Some of the stuff that I install is actually meant to behave like malware.

But fine lock windows down for normal users as long as I can still disable all the security. We don't need another Apple.

>>ashish+b4
With systemd or firejail it's quite easy to do this sort of thing on linux.