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You can call it DRM but what it really is, is security. Apps are signed, preventing the running of unauthorized code, which keeps malware off the platform. If
by MCRed 12y ago
You can call it DRM but what it really is, is security. Apps are signed, preventing the running of unauthorized code, which keeps malware off the platform.
If google really doesn't have this, then it's a shame, but it would explain why there's so much malware on android.
EFF's position across this article is supporting malware, and preventing malware is the clear cause and reasons for all the things the EFF opposes.
- comex 12y agoAndroid encourages users to stick to the Play Store, but has an escape hatch for users who don't want to. If Apple had such a policy, it might increase the presence of malware, but only for users who explicitly decided to circumvent the normal distribution process. Most Android malware is distributed on the Play Store; the reasons it is prevalent include the lack of review process and the Android permission system, both of which are orthogonal to the ability to circumvent the store.
- cpncrunch 12y agoI think Apple's policy is mainly aimed at preventing competing app stores. You see them having a conniption every time someone submits an app that includes an alternate app store. And while I don't particularly like their policy, they have every right to implement it in order to protect their revenue.
- jshevek 12y ago> I think Apple's policy is mainly aimed at preventing competing app stores. Yes. Malware is the boogey man which apple uses to justify this.
- jevinskie 12y agoSigning doesn't require encryption that inhibits visibility into the app internals.
- xsmasher 12y agoRight; Apple submission doesn't doesn't require encryption that inhibits visibility into the app internals. It does require signing, and Apple prevents unsigned apps from running on non-jailbroken phones.
- jevinskie 12y agocodesign also encrypts the binary, it is not just signed. https://github.com/jevinskie/Clutch https://github.com/jevinskie/Clutch is a utility that decrypts apps for you.
- jshevek 12y ago> preventing the running of unauthorized code, which keeps malware off the platform. This is neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition for controlling malware, yet you speak as if it is both.
- userbinator 12y agoYou're implying that "preventing malware" is important enough that it overrides all other rights of the user, including some very important freedoms? And that somehow, supporting these freedoms means "supporting malware"? What the actual fuck!? This is as horrible an argument as "only terrorists have something to hide, therefore anyone who wants privacy is supporting terrorism." (Replace "terrorism" with your choice of anything the government is fighting against.) How about we put everyone in prison, because some percentage of them will become criminals anyway? I don't even... "Those who give up freedom for security deserve neither."