Comment by chr15m

Sorry about the sarcasm in my reply.

I guess what I am saying is at the end of the day you need the program to do the thing. Whatever mutation it needs to do to accomplish the task, that's what you're going to allow. That's exactly what happens with phone app permissions. Everybody just lets Facebook use their microphone (not me of course, but most people).

What you describe would be super cool though. If every program let you know ahead of time what it was going to try to read and write in the world. That does indeed sound useful!