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I didn't disagree with your original comment by I do disagree with the follow-up. It's neither a distraction, nor a fallacy. First, our computing devices do no
by blfr 8y ago
I didn't disagree with your original comment by I do disagree with the follow-up. It's neither a distraction, nor a fallacy.
First, our computing devices do not protect our privacy and security sufficiently. It's a general problem, not limited or even particularly affecting Android. And you deal with general problems differently than with incidental ones. You don't tell people in an epidemic to "just go see a doctor."
Second, I do more sensitive computing in the browser on my computer than I do on my phone. It's the bigger issue.
Finally, the way we dealt with Internet worms and viruses was not by strongly stating how unacceptable infecting other people's computers is. We patched our software, kept it up to date, and even completely changed its design. Later shamed Microsoft into doing the same.
- PavlovsCat 8y agoI upvoted you because while I disagree that browsers are the bigger issue (many people use mobile devices for important things, and the less tech literate, the higher the chance they do all their online stuff with them, I'll just claim that), you didn't bring browsers up, you just responded to that with a fair point... and the comment you responded to didn't mention browers to distract either, so it seems silly to me that there's now this hot potato of who distracted from what in play. Good points all around, that's what I'm seeing.