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User Account Control Prompts on the Secure Desktop
Imagine stopping at a gas station to fuel up your car, selecting Standard grade unleaded gasoline, and then filling up your gas tank. Imagine then that your car fails to start and that you discover that someone maliciously tampered with the gas pump to make it distribute diesel gasoline instead of unleaded. Next, imagine that you get a phone call from someone claiming to be a security representative of your bank telling you there has been suspicious activity on your credit card. The bank representative then asks you to verify all of your personal information (including your mother’s maiden name and social security number) and your credit card number.
You later discover that there are indeed fraudulent, suspicious charges on your card, but that they took place after you provided an identify thief, the “security representative”, all of your personal data. (continue at source)