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As a developer it’s a pain but as a user it’s definitely useful for security purposes. It’s hardly “zero benefit”.
by elliekelly 6y ago
As a developer it’s a pain but as a user it’s definitely useful for security purposes. It’s hardly “zero benefit”.
- raxxorrax 6y agoAdvantages and disadvantages. It is a bit like a kindergarten for software. At some point you might want to break out of there. There are severe disadvantages though: https://medium.com/vchaincodenotary/developers-unite-against-the-expensive-and-cumbersome-code-signing-certificates-d54342016a64 https://medium.com/vchaincodenotary/developers-unite-against... Additionally, the most predatory kind of app milks your wallet and these come in signed and unsigned forms. Also, quite a few companies with long time certs have leaked them pretty quickly. Primarily, it is a lock in mechanism with questionable security benefits. Predatory apps can be signed which would have been classified as malware 15 years ago.
- elliekelly 6y agoMost apps in 2020 are malware by early-2000s standards.
- AlexandrB 6y agoExactly right. Yet they are fully signed and sold in (supposedly) secure app stores. When people talk about a feature providing security, it's important to ask "security from who?"
- elliekelly 6y agoI don’t know that I’d call the app store “secure” but it’s definitely more secure to download and run an app from the app store than to download and run an app from elsewhere on the internet. Better the (fully signed) devil you know.