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> No government will force that - there’s too much risk for malware and spyware as it is. Since when does any government anywhere on this planet care about "ri
by Slartie 6y ago
> No government will force that - there’s too much risk for malware and spyware as it is.
Since when does any government anywhere on this planet care about "risk for malware and spyware" on operating systems? If they did, they'd turn up the heat on software developers in terms of responsibility for blatant security violations and security-related software bugs. The fact that no government does any of that tells us that they don't care about secure software. Some governments - I'm not calling names now - may even have active interest in insecure software due to their law enforcement and intelligence arms depending on security flaws for their work.
- parasubvert 6y agoIn the US alone, there have been have been several congressional hearings and FTC reports on malware and spyware over the past 20+ years. Microsoft was under significant political and commercial pressure in the 2000s to clean this up, and they answered the call.