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Yes. Unfortunately control of citizens' computing is one area that China leads in. Other national government appear to be envious of this control seek to emul
by yequalsx 15y ago
Yes. Unfortunately control of citizens' computing is one area that China leads in. Other national government appear to be envious of this control seek to emulate it.
- mbateman 15y agoI think you may be missing tptacek's point. Things like code signing make it harder for bad things to run without the user's permission.
- yequalsx 15y agoIf option 3 is removed then how is this so? It's not in Apple's interest right now to do this. In five years? Maybe China decides that in order to get access to its market Option 3 must not be available. Maybe Gatekeeper gets enhanced in the future. Obviously this is hypothetical but given the trend toward national surveillance is it hard to imagine that this can happen?
- pilsetnieks 15y agoI think he meant how easy it is now for China to install key loggers on, say, American computers.
- yequalsx 15y agoI don't see how installing key loggers being easy is germane to whether or not enhancing Gatekeeper to delete unapproved programs is a future possibility. I read the comment as being, "China's key logging exploits are evidence that it likes to control computing and it will seek to enhance this capability." The trend amongst world governments is to seek greater control of computing. I doubt this is going to stop with key logging software and won't be enhanced.