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Oh hey let me be a dumb ass and run untrusted code with Admin and blame it on Microsoft. - "Security researcher"

The whole freaking point of Windows S is that it's not supposed to be possible to do that.

I think it's fair to say there's an implicit assumption that a user, given the right knowledge and intent, could circumvent this protection at which point they're on their own.

Yup, you're already on the wrong side of the water-tight door at that point.

It's not like you can't sudo rm -rf / on unix. Once you pull out your He-Man sword and shout, "I have the power!!!" you need to know what you're doing.

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