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Never going to happen as long as people insist that stuff works on their walled-garden cellphone. Cellphone lockdowns are the keystone here. There are sensibl
by KirillPanov 6y ago
Never going to happen as long as people insist that stuff works on their walled-garden cellphone.
Cellphone lockdowns are the keystone here.
There are sensible arguments for cellphones being walled gardens (grandmas can't defend their phone against malware, etc), but this is the devil's bargain you have to accept.
As long as people (a) want everything on their cellphone and (b) want it to be locked-down enough that they can trust it to not listen in on them and stalk their location, everything downstream of the cellphone will be intermediated.
- vineyardmike 6y agoNah, i have tons of open-protocol stuff on my cell phone. And i could make more (with some time and my technical knowledge) if i wanted/needed. It would be nice if it was easier to enter/exit the garden at will, sure, but thats not the same thing. I'm technically competent but these systems are so complex i don't think i could defend against malware in a complete open system. Actually, they're so complex that i do not think its possible to completely defend against malware as an end user without serious changes to behavior that is undesirable to most (eg. stop download apps so freely)