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by robin-whg 879 days ago
But you can't have the cake and eat it too. We can't expect every company to maintain native apps for every platform and a website on top of that; not relying on 3rd party packages and instead to write everything themselves. Maintaining all that, they're bound to f-up at some point and expose vulnerabilities.
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> Maintaining all that, they're bound to f-up at some point and expose vulnerabilities.

Who maintains the 1600 dependencies of a project? Pretty sure some of those expose vulnerabilities. Not counting those that are downright malware.

Yep, for some reason only poor indie gaming companies do that.

It's unrealistic to expect companies the size of Microsoft to take a break from putting spyware in your operating system and, for example, revert the piece of shit Skype has become back into a native app.