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The irony is strong here. You need walled gardena because walled gardena protect people from dangerous software. Posted as a comment in a news about dangerou
by spiorf 9y ago
The irony is strong here.
You need walled gardena because walled gardena protect people from dangerous software.
Posted as a comment in a news about dangerous software found in a walled garden.
- ufmace 9y agoThe argument would be that this suggests that Google's garden should have higher and better-guarded walls to prevent such things, while many seem to argue that our gardens' walls are too high. Apple gets criticized for having slower and more arbitrary manual reviews of all app updates, but they don't seem to get malicious apps like this in their app store nearly as much.
- ycmbntrthrwaway 9y agoThey also don't have decent free mail clients with OpenPGP support.
- wpietri 9y agoNot really. This is only news because it's surprising and uncommon. In contrast, consider the fake Microsoft tech support scams. Those are so common that Microsoft gets 10,000 complaints/month [1], so nobody would think to mention a single example here. [1] https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2017/05/18/fight-tech-support-scams/ https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2017/05/18/fight-t...
- djrogers 9y agoIt’s not uncommon at all, and it’s been documented here and other places many many times. The difference between this and your poor analogy is that here Google could actually prevent this if they chose to.
- nl 9y agoIt's hardly a walled garden. More like a picket fence.