Wait what? Just learned about undocumented Windows ShellExecute(..., "runas"). How is this not just universal sudo? https://ss64.com/vb/shellexecute.html …
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Ha! OK. As
@evilpies says, UAC is basically providing zero guarantees. Presumably the real mechanism is that my user has admin rights. -
It’s called a “split token” internally: you have half of a user security token and half of an administrator token. Or something like that.
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