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Could anyone here imagine if an application we installed on our computers did this? What if the twitter app went around my computer after asking for admin permissions to find all my contacts and messages from different programs just to beam up to facebook.

Such a thing was considered a virus in my time.



Oh, if you have Windows 10, the vendor's assumption already is that the same rules apply as with mobile platforms. In that mindset, there's little point to differentiate.




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