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I quite like were macOS is on this topic philosophically with XProtect and Gatekeeper. I don't think Craig is being necessarily fair to macOS in his framing, a
by headmelted 5y ago
I quite like were macOS is on this topic philosophically with XProtect and Gatekeeper. I don't think Craig is being necessarily fair to macOS in his framing, as they've gone much further than Windows has and Linux realistically can, but I get that he's trying to win the debate in the eyes of the court.
It's a great (if not perfect) way to provide some protection over software from outside the App Store, but he's right in suggesting that it just wouldn't scale to the sheer amount of mobile software people would install on iOS because a shady ad banner told them to.
(Basing this on Linux being free and as a result not coming with a monitoring team for notarisation of software in the wild).