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Does anybody else cringe when clicking on os update announcements wondering what the heck they are going to break in the next release? Are they going to add DR
by narrator 11y ago
Does anybody else cringe when clicking on os update announcements wondering what the heck they are going to break in the next release? Are they going to add DRM? Telemetry? Remove Key features? Make disk encryption less secure? Make it harder to install non-appstore apps? It just feels like technology is going backwards with each new release of os software.
- emsy 11y agoFeature wise OS X is still fine. You can run everything as long as you unlock it manually, which I find actually valuable since most users should not use unsigned applications. I also trust the software more than Windows (still far less than Linux). Unlike Microsoft, Apple recently stood up for the user's privacy. DRM is still mostly a problem that you can control by buying DRM free. The key point will be stability. Yosemite is a mess. If they fix that it'll be fine.
- coldtea 11y agoThey actually improve the use of disk encryption and security of OS X in every release (including this one).
- superuser2 11y agoThere cannot possibly enough friction between an end-user and the video player they just downloaded from a porn site. There is absolutely no reason for every piece of software you run to have access to your entire filesystem except that we didn't know better 30 years ago. As long as there's a sensible override system that lets users make informed decisions about trust, I can't wait for OSX to converge on the iOS sandboxing model FWIW, FileVault has been getting better, and recent versions have come with other security fixes like defeating Thunderbolt DMA attacks.