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I believe it's set up this way specifically to allow revocation for addons that are initially approved but later found to be malicious.
by 0xffff2 8y ago
I believe it's set up this way specifically to allow revocation for addons that are initially approved but later found to be malicious.
- pbhjpbhj 8y agoIf it is, without requesting user authorisation, then that's an illegal act under the UK Computer Misuse Act (and the USA's CFAA I think too) - modification of a computer without authorisation.
- usecontainers 8y agoexcept you agreed and authorized when you installed the software. Take your position to the logical extreme - software can't make any changes without explicit, interactive approval; and you thought UAC was bad. I look forward to joining your class-action lawsuit.
- pbhjpbhj 8y agoWhen the changes are unexpected, yes, further explicit authorisation is required. Just because you installed a photo-album app doesn't let the distributor delete all your photos, say. Besides that, this sort of "but we hid something in the t&c-s so now we can shit on you" is the sort of thing I expect from over commercialised companies, not from what was once a paragon of the FOSS community. FWIW class-actions don't exist in UK.