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As far as desktop OSes go, I think the much larger problem is how to let users control the degree of sandboxing an application has. On mobile we're broadly used
by keyringlight 2y ago
As far as desktop OSes go, I think the much larger problem is how to let users control the degree of sandboxing an application has. On mobile we're broadly used to each application asking for permissions (and whether we've trained users to just hammer 'allow' until it proceeds) and each is largely independent.
Windows also has its legacy software that wouldn't know about new restrictions, so would need dummy access until allowed, and UI for the user to gain understanding about why their newly downloaded utility can't access their webcam and all their files yet, and how to rectify that. Windows already has something like this through controlled folder access, but I've yet to hear of someone who turns it on. Part of the biggest strength of desktops is how all the software/hardware parts combine, so I think this is high stakes in terms of not pissing people off so the feature actually gets used.
- gravescale 2y agoYes, the open software war has been lost fairly comprehensively and many programs that are routinely installed on computers are dreadful spyware, but instead of being random ill-advised junk from some forum, they're 389MB of analytics masquerading as productivity software from the very biggest corporate names in software. Who know what all that evil junk is doing with its execute bit and filesystem and network access. (https://xkcd.com/1200/ https://xkcd.com/1200/) And if you think the situation is bad with Teams and Dropbox and other "Western-style" software, it's way worse elsewhere in the world.