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> My computer is my work station. Imagine if you have a woodworking table with all your tools and materials laid out, and you go to bed, come back in the mornin
by eyelidlessness 5y ago
> My computer is my work station. Imagine if you have a woodworking table with all your tools and materials laid out, and you go to bed, come back in the morning, and everything has been rearranged, some of your tools replaced with other tools, some taken away altogether because you "don't need them". It would be a very rude thing of someone to do, and it would be a non-starter.
This is pretty much exactly why I don’t agree with your root cause analysis. Imagine if some open source standard or some set of them deliberate on a breaking change, and everyone who uses their thing has to manually move all of their tools to do any work. Imagine if that change didn’t reach consensus and every user has to manually move their tools into both conforming places corresponding to multiple tools’ expectations.
The vast majority of people using computers just won’t update anything and… then we’ll have the wailing and gnashing of teeth about the security implications of that. Or even just platform capability implications of that.
- forgotmypw17 5y agoI don't understand which security implications you're talking about. I'm on a well-secured network, behind a NAT, only browsing trusted websites. Where are the security issues coming from?
- eyelidlessness 5y agoFor you? Just the security risk of the vast majority of people who don’t want to manually retool for every opinion and forego updates, and whatever that implies for anything that can impact you. For… that vast majority of people, you don’t have to use much imagination, it’s some non-small portion of every exploit you’ve heard about, unpatched.