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Well, not patching a security flaw is not exactly a good business practice either. Now, locking the Windows RT bootloader was a bad practice to begin with, and
by unscaled 10y ago
Well, not patching a security flaw is not exactly a good business practice either.
Now, locking the Windows RT bootloader was a bad practice to begin with, and it's a good thing Microsoft stopped doing that. Then again, it's hard to blame them, seeing that Apple keeps locking down everything they can lay their hands on with virtually no criticism outside the Slashdot crowd perhaps. Everyone just keeps nodding and saying "This is the right thing for protecting their users and ecosystem. Look at all the fragmentation and malware mess that Android suffers from".
And what is with that "Embrace, Extend and Extinguish"? It's 2016. Next thing, IBM will come selling their Watson SaaS and everyone would have to buy it because "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM "?
- yAnonymous 10y agoThe attacker needs root or physical access, so at that point it hardly qualifies as a security flaw anymore.
- Dayshine 10y agoExcept it's a vulnerability for bitlocker, which is exactly for defending against physical access?
- anonbanker 10y ago"it's CURRENT YEAR" is hardly refutation of the fact that it's still happening. Especially when you follow it up with a strawman about IBM. now, let me channel dang for a second here: HN looks down on these types of posts filled with logical fallacy (ad hominem, appeal to ridicule, moving goalposts). You would have made your point with the first two sentences alone.