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I see a lot of comments here about Mac & Ubuntu. I run Ubuntu myself, so no disrespect intended. That said: If we all do and make everyone else do as we say, r
by josteink 12y ago
I see a lot of comments here about Mac & Ubuntu. I run Ubuntu myself, so no disrespect intended.
That said: If we all do and make everyone else do as we say, replace Windows with Ubuntu & Mac, guess what happens next? The next shitwave of shitware will come to our favourite platforms, and they will find new exploits and new creative ways to fuck us over too.
This is a social problem and technology alone wont solve it. Either users must be taught to avoid things like this (flying pigs be damned) or it must be banned by law. Law which unfortunately knows geographical limits and universal lack of uniformity & coherence.
What's the general opinion on that? I'm obviously all for banning crapware, but lets say the majority was for banning it, and we found a solution for the "global" laws thing... How would you define it, where would you draw the line for what is just poor software and what is actively harmful?
What about remote-control/support-tools? Obviously they can be used for good, but in the wrong hands they can be used for espionage and surveillance and ransomware.
I suspect such a ban would cause quite some debate, even among techies.
- thirdsun 12y agoIt's already happening on OSX. The other day a non-tech-savvy co-worker of mine wanted to install some kind of Samsung Sync software for his mobile (KIES or something?) - instead of the official site he went with the first Google result. That colorful and large download button inspired confidence after all. The downloaded app installed...something, but it wasn't Kies. It hijacked the browser, installed MacKeeper and changed all kinds of settings and preferences. He told me after the fact and since the machine was just freshed setup with few things changed (apart from the crapware) I told him to do a clean install since you never know what you missed when you try to clean it up manually.
- Fritsdehacker 12y agoWith Ubuntu, however, you have software repositories which you use to install almost everything. So there is no need to go hunting on the internet for binaries you need. In my opinion this is one of the best security features of most Linux distro's.