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Yes, we should be. My computer should run programs when I tell it to run them. Don’t blunt _every_ tool just to make them harder to cut yourself on.
by danielheath 5mo ago
Yes, we should be.
My computer should run programs when I tell it to run them.
Don’t blunt _every_ tool just to make them harder to cut yourself on.
- angry_octet 5mo agoI hope you're in the very small minority of people who rigorously manage untrusted downloads and whitelist every binary, because you're operating an appliance from the 1970s, sticking a metal fork into an un-earthed toaster. Most people need help from their operating system.
- b65e8bee43c2ed0 5mo agothen we, the very small minority, want a button to disable that help.
- Joker_vD 5mo agoI sincerely agree. By the way, thanks for lending your machine for my "Network-Retransmission-and-Compute-as-a-service" network.
- rtpg 5mo agoIncreased metadata isn't tool blunting in itself though, even if MacOS uses it for being... annoying is one way of saying it. Provenance information bundled into a file is not the worst idea in the world IMO. We have created/modified timestamps on files already, right? There's definitely the question of "why" but hey if more of my binaries just had at least a tag about who put them there that would be a win in my book. Not an argument for doing what MacOS does, just an argument that the info would be nice to have.
- danishanish 5mo agoIt’s not blunting a tool, it’s sheathing it. Modern software requires too much proxied trust for this attitude to work.