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by dns_snek 881 days ago
I don't believe there's such a thing as perfect security, I'm just astounded that someone who's not (1) a senile lawmaker being influenced by lobbyists, or (2) holding significant shares of AAPL; would even suggest that voiding warranty is a reasonable course of action if third-party software is installed on a general-purpose computing device.

Furthermore, claiming that Apple's review or signing processes are effective measures for preventing malware has no basis in reality. Apple has reviewed, approved and signed malware before, and they'll do it again because detecting malware is borderline impossible.

They do not possess magic powers that can suss out malware any better than industry average because (1) automated virus scanning is almost entirely ineffective against new malware and (2) they're not paying a team of specialists to reverse engineer and analyze app updates.