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With airplanes, the manufacturer is on the hook until the plane is no longer in the air. We should require OS manufacturers to do the same. They should be on
by imchillyb 10y ago
With airplanes, the manufacturer is on the hook until the plane is no longer in the air.
We should require OS manufacturers to do the same. They should be on the hook for security until the last device using their technology is no longer in use.
- gpm 10y agoThat doesn't really make sense. 'Security' is not a binary thing, many pieces of malware, quite possibly including this one, don't break the OSes security model. The OS doesn't consider your browser downloading and running executable a problem, if it did we would all be complaining about wall gardens. If that executable wants to read and write files in your home directory it is allowed to (otherwise you couldn't download and run emacs). The fact that it happens to be encrypting them to ransom back to you isn't something the OS is really in a position to know, or do anything about.