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"UAC is weird and does weird things"

This was a sorta fun one: "When is signed... not signed?" textslashplain.com/2026/08/03/a...

textslashplain.comAuthenticode and UACWhen a user attempts to run a file with elevated privilege, Windows will show a User Account Control elevation prompt that asks whether the user trusts the file to run. For a regular file, the user…

3/8/26, 8:28 pm8 reposts35 likes

Nice thank you

This could be an explanation for this behavior we’ve been trying to understand for a while. Eventually the system store must get the intermediates, but the issue has come back for later releases at random github.com/sublimehq/su...

github.comCodesigned Sublime Text Binaries · Issue #6581 · sublimehq/sublime_textProblem description The current Sublime binaries are not codesigned. This is causing issues with Windows Information Protection policies as every binary is now accepted on hash base. Every update t...

Martin Z.ombie

@pxtl.ca

3 Aug

It kills me that people pay hundreds of dollars to be abused like this. I keep fantasizing that Google's APK signing workaround for the app store lawsuit will result in the EU taking aim at this monstrosity.