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Over the last 50 years there have been a few cycles between thin and thick clients (in different contexts) so hopefully it's not all one direction from here.
by jrumbut 5y ago
Over the last 50 years there have been a few cycles between thin and thick clients (in different contexts) so hopefully it's not all one direction from here.
- tyingq 5y agoI agree, though this time there's big money behind taking local control away.
- generalizations 5y agoWhich is why, as long as there's hackers, there'll be another cycle in the other direction.
- tyingq 5y agoThey aren't having much luck with the iPhone...
- w0de0 5y agoThe are! It's just not an everyday occurrence - and so is worth much more - so most zero days end up in nation state hands.
- kingofclams 5y agoTake what i say with a grain of salt, (I’m not an iPhone hacker and I follow their work semi-loosely but from my understanding there are a number of available and documented tethered exploits. I wouldn’t doubt theres a number of untethered exploits that are waiting in Apple’s bug tracker system, or are simply too abusable for the general public to know about.
- agumonkey 5y agoI wonder if these cycles have been studied.
- saurik 5y agoThe thick clients, though, seem heavily tied to mechanisms that still prevent local control.