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Apple bundles plenty of software on their computers which I don't want, have never used, which increase the potential attack surface and which I can't uninstall
by tssva 8y ago
Apple bundles plenty of software on their computers which I don't want, have never used, which increase the potential attack surface and which I can't uninstall. For example Apple Maps, Apple News, Home, and Books. In fact you can't uninstall any of the apps shipped with macOS. Not even the chess program.
- MagicPropmaker 8y agoExactly! With Windows you do have choices. I bought a desktop PC from ThinkMate configured exactly as I wanted it with a plain vanilla Windows 10.
- carleton 8y agoAs another user said- "It's barely 5 megabytes.. and it's probably not connecting to anything. The protections for pre-installed apps help to make sure nothing else tampers with them, e.g. injecting some malware, but I'm sure you can remove those protections and reclaim the 5 MB if you really wanted to." [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19803067 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19803067
- tssva 8y agoChess was given as an example because it is the most ridiculous thing that can't be removed. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19809880 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19809880 for my full response to the other user.