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Original Post: Running as non-Admin?
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Ted Neward says we should run without admin rights on Windows. I agree with him... but it's unfortunately not generally feasible. Why? Go ahead, grab a random set of applications lying around. Now just try to run them as a non-admin user. This actually works on Unix or Linux; for all I know it works on OS X as well (I have no idea). It doesn't work on Windows. Should it? Sure. Until it does, chastising others for doing what they have to do to get by isn't terribly helpful, IMHO.
Recently, Nick Wienholt posted a blog entry over on his APress blog about why he doesn't particularly care about running as a lower-privileged account on his machine when developing software.
With all due respect, this is probably why Nick Wienholt doesn't come up in the list of names of recognized security experts.
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