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> On personal devices, protecting anything from the user is a backwards and broken model that doesn't respect reality. It's the user's device, they should be ab
by oarsinsync 9y ago
> On personal devices, protecting anything from the user is a backwards and broken model that doesn't respect reality. It's the user's device, they should be able to use it any way they want.
I want to be protected from myself. I want my mom to not have to think about how she's using her device in order for her data to be safe.
> What we really want to do, is protect the user's data from malicious actors, and getting in the user's way and annoying the crap out of them doesn't accomplish that at all (case in point: ransomware)
Ransomware (at the time of writing) doesn't impact locked down platforms like iOS.
I'm happy to lose that freedom in exchange for protection!
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 9y agoThen you should be able to get that behavior out of your OS if it is what you want. By all means, give yourself a web kiosk that runs on an overlay fs over a read-only boot media. I've set that up for people. Ransomware isn't a huge problem on iOS because, like Android, the permissions apply to the application, not the user account. That's a model that makes sense.