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I meant more the second one, although depending on how widespread thunderbolt devices are, it might become useless like you say. But are thunderbolt devices re
by Klathmon 9y ago
I meant more the second one, although depending on how widespread thunderbolt devices are, it might become useless like you say.
But are thunderbolt devices really expected to be that common that a message like this would be treated like the windows UAC dialog?
- kbenson 9y agoI dock my laptop on a regular basis through Thunderbolt, as it's my workstation as well. It really depends on the person and their usage patterns.
- solarkraft 9y agoI definitely wish for USB-C to become very wide spread because it converges so many functions across different device types. For me Thunderbolt adds another layer to that, enabling extra features like super fast data transfer, however at the cost of security. A security prompt seems very reasonable to me here, however I'm not sure Intel or Apple are very interested in that becasue they would be admitting a weakness and hinder the adoption of their own technology in some ways. However for user trust this would be a very big win in my eyes.
- Klathmon 9y agoI agree, however I could absolutely see it getting away from us. If Thunderbolt gives even a slight advantage over USB-C, vendors will want to use it over USB-C. And the layperson will want it as well, which leads to "creep" making the most insecure but fastest method the "main". There would need to be a way to dissuade vendors from using Thunderbolt for everything... And sadly a warning message isn't enough.
- chimeracoder 9y agoThis isn't an apples to apples comparison. Thunderbolt 3 is a protocol, and USB-C, is a connector type uses for a lot of things, including Thunderbolt 3. There is Thunderbolt 2, but it never saw any adoption outside Apple, and it's basically dead.
- Klathmon 9y agoI was comparing the protocols underpinning them, apologies if that was confusing.