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Wouldn’t this lead to intense efforts to install malware and scams?
by graeme 6y ago
Wouldn’t this lead to intense efforts to install malware and scams?
- jedberg 6y agoProbably. Just like on your PC. But I'm not sure that is a good reason not to have it. We've put mitigations in place on the PC.
- threeseed 6y agoThis reality you want to impose on the world is hilarious. Just picturing wanting to sit down and play on my PS4 and having to first run virus and malware checkers.
- oauea 6y agoThis reality you want to impose on the world is hilarious. Just picturing buying a computing device, then not being able to install the software I want on it.
- threeseed 6y agoI am not imposing any reality. The status quo is then when you buy console devices e.g. gaming, cars, TVs etc you can only install apps that are approved by the manufacturer. People think of phones as console devices not computers.
- Nextgrid 6y ago> Just picturing wanting to sit down and play on my PS4 and having to first run virus and malware checkers. Why would a reputable game developer ever release malware? You can still go to a reputable developer's website or even Sony's website and obtain the game from their store and be guaranteed that it's free from malware. Of course, if you're obtaining your games from Torrent-Warez-1337.net then you need to be more careful but then it's your fault, it's not like you didn't know what you were in for when you went to a shady website.
- scarface74 6y agoOr Epic in the case of Fortnite. https://www.cnet.com/news/just-as-critics-feared-fortnite-for-android-came-with-an-epic-security-risk/ https://www.cnet.com/news/just-as-critics-feared-fortnite-fo...
- 43920 6y agoThe fact that most mobile platforms are sandboxed would help a lot to mitigate this - even if you do install a malicious app, the damage it can do is going to be fairly limited in most cases. (And the platforms that don't have effective sandboxing need to implement it, regardless of whether they allow outside apps or not).
- greedo 6y agoSandboxing doesn't really mitigate much of the issue. Apps often need access to shared storage as well as contacts etc. Even if they don't need access to what really should be private, they'll ask for it. And as we've trained a generation of Windows users to do, they'll grant access. Then we have privacy breaches, or tracking issues etc etc. The OS on the mobile device may be fine, but your data won't be.