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Have you ever maintained a product popular enough that lots of people try to hack into and abuse? If yes, you should understand the reasons for protective measu

Have you ever maintained a product popular enough that lots of people try to hack into and abuse? If yes, you should understand the reasons for protective measures like this.

deelly 3y ago
Like Chrome, Windows, Android, iOs etc? We all understand that companies wants to protect us from "evildoers". But its a similar situation as with any censorship. Why not allow users to decide themselves?
- theamk 3y ago
  that's exactly what they did. Have you read the article?
  - deelly 3y ago
    Did we read different articles? This functionality is enabled by default. That`s why I`m asking - why don't ask the user first? Upd: please be civil, this is a discussion and not a competition.
    - theamk 3y ago
      Well, as the article said, there is an user-selectable option, so the answer to "Why not allow users to decide themselves?" is "they did" As for default, that's a different question unrelated to user freedom. Unfortunately in Windows, DLL injection is very often abused for no good reason. Imagine a simple, non-technical user getting asked about permitting mouse driver DLL.. what would user think? With only information being DLL name/description, they might think that mouse will not work without it and permit it (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36681873 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36681873 for real reason). And once firefox starts crashing, will they know how to disable it? No, it is much safer to disable it all by default. And if a powrer user needs a specific DLL, they can enable it. As a bonus, they will learn where the dialog is, so they can disable it back once the crashes start.