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> There simply isn't a known solution to this problem. If you give users the ability to install unverified apps, then bad actors can trick them into installing
by singpolyma3 8mo ago
> There simply isn't a known solution to this problem. If you give users the ability to install unverified apps, then bad actors can trick them into installing bad ones that steal their auth codes and whatnot.
This is also true if they can only install verified apps, because no company on earth has the resources to have an actually functional verification process and stuff gets through every day.
- iamnothere 8mo ago> This is also true if they can only install verified apps, because no company on earth has the resources to have an actually functional verification process and stuff gets through every day. This is true, but if this goes through, I imagine that the next step for safety fascists will be to require developer licensing and insurance like general contractors have. And after that, expensive audits, etc, until independent developers are shut out completely.
- simonask 8mo agoI don’t know if I agree, but we are very much in a world where that would make sense. Why do drug companies deserve justice for developing and pushing heroin-analogues, but not tech companies? Our work has real consequences.
- iamnothere 8mo agoAnd here we have it, the endgame of safety fascism. Do you have a loicense for that compiler?
- simonask 8mo agoDo you call building codes and bridge engineering standards "safety fascism" as well? The stakes aren't any lower for us.
- iamnothere 8mo agoMe being allowed to publish hobby software is just as high stakes as a fscking bridge? Get a grip, man.
- simonask 8mo agoYou’re moving the goal posts. You can build all the hobby bridges you want. It would be deeply irresponsible to ask the public to cross them, though.
- iamnothere 8mo agoI never mentioned building critical software like medical diagnosis software, software for industrial equipment, etc. If I write a trash library for a random project and someone else starts using it to run their nuke plant, that isn’t my fault. Read the license. NO WARRANTY.