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Would this have played out the same way if she wasn't running Windows? What if she was using a Chromebook or an Android tablet? For all the tasks she needs her

Would this have played out the same way if she wasn't running Windows? What if she was using a Chromebook or an Android tablet? For all the tasks she needs her laptop for, would one of these not have been sufficient? Perhaps we shouldn't be equipping users like Jessica with full-fledged workstations. This will be unpopular, but: maybe there is something to walled gardens after all.

dragonwriter 9y ago
> Would this have played out the same way if she wasn't running Windows? What if she was using a Chromebook or an Android tablet? Yes. Well, at least, a fictional narrative with a similar outcome could plausibly be constructed, because "She can't afford a new X so she's using one she got from her mom's ex-boyfriend" is one of the many points at which a low-level exploit could have been introduced (the point where the actual exploit occurs in the story isn't the only one where it could have occurred), and exploits that could have been introduced there with physical access certainly abound for Android, and I would imagine for ChromeOS machines as well.
netsharc 9y ago
As terrible the walled garden of iOS is (seems like Android is still PC-like in its customisation abilities), it's a good feature to protect agains malware. Well, iOS now has custom keyboards which is basically "Emojis! GIFs! But also keylogging!" (Hah, remember all those Windows apps offering icons, etc?). Also, where is the webcam LED on phones?