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Android, iOS, and Chrome OS all have security models that are fundamentally superior to what you get on a base *nix system: Fine-grained, application-level perm
by Ajedi32 10y ago
Android, iOS, and Chrome OS all have security models that are fundamentally superior to what you get on a base *nix system: Fine-grained, application-level permissions which the user can grant or deny on a case-by-case basis.
And before you say that all those operating systems are based on Unix; that's true but it's mostly just an implementation detail. There's no reason, for example, that Chrome OS couldn't be based on an entirely different kernel and still have the same permissions model, and most Unix-like systems don't have fine grained permissions like this out-of-the-box.
- FroggyMan 10y agoWindows Phone 7 did fine grained security much earlier and with full device encryption as default. It's now also a standard on WinRT/UWP on Windows8/10. Android was very late to the party regarding fine grained security. Google knowingly put billions of consumers at risk for a long time. And even today its security a nightmare.