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In theory, the “web of trust” would solve the trust issue. You trust Dev A who trusts Dev B. Therefore, you implicitly trust Dev B. In practice, bad actors and
by colejohnson66 6y ago
In theory, the “web of trust” would solve the trust issue. You trust Dev A who trusts Dev B. Therefore, you implicitly trust Dev B. In practice, bad actors and “rouge” developers make it harder than that.
- amelius 6y agoAt least a web of trust could to some extent address the issue of loss of trust. At some point Apple, being just a company with shareholders, could start behaving like Microsoft, Amazon, Google or even Facebook. Where would you go then?
- jolux 6y agoTheir business incentives are currently more aligned with my desires and needs than any other company. If they started behaving like those other companies, I wouldn't really have anywhere to go. I would probably end up using desktop Linux, but mobile is an open question.
- drawkbox 6y agoInterestingly the sandboxed web + web browser provided and provides much more trust and security than apps/binaries. The web browser sandbox was created to solve lots of problems with security of executables, it didn't solve all of them but it did make content by third parties more secure. Granted the web probably tracks you as much as mobile, but it will need permission to use your camera/mic/etc and you can more easily see what is being tracked, at least the scripts and states. All Apple is doing it creating a similar security sandbox to the web and they should.