{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"Rainbow Dash Network","provider_url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/","type":"link","title":"Omni (omni)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Jul-12 21:33:55 UTC","author_name":"Omni (omni)","author_url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/omni","url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/notice\/1736894","html":"@<span class=\"vcard\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/user\/9434\" class=\"url\" title=\"Jim Kuback\"><span class=\"fn nickname\">abigpony<\/span><\/a><\/span> No... You obviously don't know what POLA is. POLA means Principle Of Least Authority and basically means: only give things the permissions it needs, to protect against malicious software. In Windows Vista, however, the minimum you already needed admin powers for was so low, that most programs really needed it for relatively normal features. I know, because I wrote a program that only ran some other programs and I already ended up in that issue."}