Comment by lelanthran

> With a permissions system that’s meant to enforce security? I hope not.

There's different needs for a permissions system.

You're thinking of it as "lock to the main entrance of a maximum security prison". Think of it more as a lock on a bedroom door: it's not there to withstand a SWAT assault, it's there to keep people from accidentally walking in.

All local applications (which were all applications in the era we are talking about) with permissions were sold to companies on the understanding that there was no real security.

Hell, even the networked products at the time had no real security :-/