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It's interesting, but the trend toward making everything a web application is even more disturbing to me, given the revelation of how deep the security rot goes
by drivingmenuts 13y ago
It's interesting, but the trend toward making everything a web application is even more disturbing to me, given the revelation of how deep the security rot goes these days. The net is pretty much unavoidable, unless you're pretty hardcore, but I, for one, am hoping for focus on pulling things back to the user end at some point.
- pcx66 13y agoI think the rush to make everything 'web' is primarily because we finally are building an open, free, accessible, write-once-run-everywhere platform. That's the most exciting part of the web, and privacy is a bug we still have to fix. EDIT: When I say 'privacy is a bug', I mean the ability to provide privacy is still immature, and susceptible of exploits.
- drivingmenuts 13y agoThat privacy is viewed as a bug is even more disturbing.
- da_n 13y agoLinux on the Desktop was a bug until Mark Cuban closed it (controversially). I'm not sure why referring to it as a bug is disturbing.
- drivingmenuts 13y agoIt implies that privacy is somehow wrong, as opposed to a perhaps fundamental right.
- da_n 13y agoThe lack of privacy is a bug which needs to be fixed, I don't believe the OP means a users right to privacy is a bug.