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There was once a time where you had a workstation running a professional OS you could trust not to mess with your data and privacy. I think we lost something th
by enqk 10y ago
There was once a time where you had a workstation running a professional OS you could trust not to mess with your data and privacy. I think we lost something there.
- chrisdew 10y agoYes, we lost something as soon as applications could start doing things without explicit instruction from the machine's owner. Limited technology (pre-HDD) accidentally gave us privacy (data on disconnected floppy disks) and security (OSs on ROMs).