> flagging everything as unsafe is a good way of notifying the user that they must be careful
Crying wolf all the time is a 100% guaranteed way of making sure nobody will ever care.
Crying wolf all the time is a 100% guaranteed way of making sure nobody will ever care.
When I write Windows-software, I only signal that the process requires UAC elevation for the things which actually does so. It's possible. In fact it's rather easy.
I almost never encounter software which requires UAC elevation, just like most things in Linux doesn't require me to go full sudo.