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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • The point is also to minimize potential damages caused by a bug in the software. Just this year there have been multiple data-destroying bugs in publicly released software. If the app runs as a server it’s usually trivial to have it run as a dedicated user, with just enough permissions to do its job.

    It’s just good practice, even though the risks might be low why risk it at all?