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> Apple’s restrictions liberate me from having to spend time on fully-liberated computing. This seems to conflate restrictions with defaults. It's reasonable
by _qulr 6y ago
> Apple’s restrictions liberate me from having to spend time on fully-liberated computing.
This seems to conflate restrictions with defaults.
It's reasonable for Apple to configure Macs to be safe "out of the box". But it's not clear why it helps you to prevent other Mac users from changing the defaults.
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- floatingatoll 6y agoYou’re right, “Apple’s out-of-the-box restrictions” is a better phrasing. I don’t understand your final sentence about “prevent”, and it doesn’t seem to be connected to anything I said. I apologize but as a result I can’t consider or reply to it as stated.
- zepto 6y agoIf you are someone who wants and understands how to use a machine with disabled security features, it obviously doesn’t help to have the defaults be unchangable. For everyone else, it is a very important safeguard against social engineering attacks.
- _qulr 6y agoPeople are social engineered over the phone all the time. Maybe they shouldn't be allowed to have phones or answer phone calls.
- zepto 6y ago“Maybe they shouldn’t be allowed to have phones or answer calls” Nobody is saying this. This is the same kind of misleading rhetoric you used earlier. The fact that people are socially engineered over the phone just proves there is a demand for a solution. You seem to want to deny people a solution. There is definitely a demand for a phone service that filters out scam calls, or for service providers to do something to prevent them.