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Given how easy it is to convince people to try to run Javascript in the browser console, just click this link in your email to find out if you won the lottery y
by evgen 9y ago
Given how easy it is to convince people to try to run Javascript in the browser console, just click this link in your email to find out if you won the lottery you didn't enter, or do other dumb things that none of us can believe actually work, the fact that there is no off switch is a major win for the security of the vast majority of Apple users. If you want to help people then create the open-source replacement for these apps and teach them to compile it and sideload it themselves.
- lallysingh 9y ago.. just transfer your money here? If users are so stupid, protections won't help.
- johncolanduoni 9y agoMany people understand the seriousness of transferring money. Fewer understand the seriousness of installing random stuff. There’s a reason pop up ads mostly promise to clean your computer, not transfer money to your account if you give them the number.
- eropple 9y agoWhen I worked for a medical software company, we deployed to all our customers through an enterprise distribution source. They went to a web page we sent them via email, clicked a thing, and that was that. To that end, 'evgen's post is extremely important to consider when it comes to malware and phishing. We could do that, and we were the "good guys"--opening it up even further would terrify me.
- cageface 9y agoEnterprise config for iOS should have the option of disabling this on the device. Doesn't mean ordinary end users shouldn't have the choice if they want it.
- eropple 9y agoI think maybe we're not on the same wavelength here: we were provisioning to end user devices, through this. Doctors had iPhones? Here you go, just click this link and now we can install anything we want. Nobody asked if it was legit, they just clicked. Making this worse would be an Android-level disaster for end user safety.