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Me. It limits the attack surface and all the problems that come with openness, very visible in the Android world. The problem is that giving a choice to users
by asadlionpk 6y ago
Me. It limits the attack surface and all the problems that come with openness, very visible in the Android world.
The problem is that giving a choice to users is risky and not acceptable at scale because people are not smart, they do dumb things all the time; like pasting untrusted scripts into devtools console and getting hacked. Or replying to mail scams.
So I am happy I can hand an iPad to my parent and not be there to secure all activities they do online.
- braythwayt 6y agoWe used to joke about the fact that no matter what you do to educate users, if told that to see a video of funny dancing pigs[1] all they have to do is give the installer root privileges... Users will give the installer root privileges. History bore this out over and over and over again. — [1]: See also: Crapware-laden browser toolbars, Java runtimes, Adobe Reader, Windows crapware, Smart TVs, ...