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It is now considered ethical not to notify users that there are important security updates?

• ryandrake 2y ago
  Important for who? I should be the one to decide what is important enough to install, not the developer. If I want to know whether patches are available for my software, I will poll their websites at an interval that makes sense for me.
  • vanviegen 2y ago
    And you're welcome to do just that. But do you really believe that should be the default behavior, expecting people to remember checking for updates regularly?
    • ryandrake 2y ago
      The default behavior should be to not do anything that the user does not command, but if that’s too extreme for 2024, then at the very least, the software developer should obtain the user’s consent before doing anything on its own.
      • sodality2 2y ago
        To be fair, I've never had a Linux system that auto-updated, and even for the ones that do have that feature built-in, it's never enabled by default. But I'm sure most linux distros make network connections during startup that you didn't "command".
• codedokode 2y ago
  Yes it is not ethical to check for updates if the user didn't agree for that.