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"the good old days", as in, "the days when the average person had no freaking clue if something was safe, but installed it anyway because it's completely unreas
by EpicEng 8y ago
"the good old days", as in, "the days when the average person had no freaking clue if something was safe, but installed it anyway because it's completely unreasonable to expect them to do otherwise"?
If your security model is "do your research" then you're going to fail.
- sodosopa 8y agoReminds me of the saying, “I would RTFM if there was a FM to R”
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 8y agoJust because someone certifies that it wasn't tampered with and comes from who it says it does doesn't mean it is safe.
- fjabre 8y agoA novel idea. Apple and googles own apps have been tampered with. Indeed there are compromised apps available for download now on both stores. Perhaps it's 'safer' but now we all ask permission and pay a huge tax to release software. Is this a better system? The web is alive but under attack. What freedoms will devs have left? We will either pay comcast or we will pay google and apple. Either way the entrance fee for development just became a lot higher.
- EpicEng 8y agoPerfection isn't required. None of the systems we design are perfect. What's relevant is whether or not it's better for the users. In a direct way, for the average user, I don't think you can reasonably argue that it's not. There are of course other issues with walled gardens, but security isn't one of them.