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by fireattack
828 days ago
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Yes, if the user want to disable all the protections and choose to install malware it's their choice. You can already do so on *nix, Windows, and macOS (albeit more complicated). Not sure why a phone OS would be different. Your line of thinking is basically "think of the children". |
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As a new platform that does not have to worry about backwards compatibility they can better design the operating system with lessons learned over the years that desktops have existed.
>Your line of thinking is basically "think of the children".
My line of thinking is that with proper design a platform can have good security. The web platform got sandboxing right. It's a good thing that a website can not cryptolock all your files by just visiting it. Does a website really need to be able to read and write all the files on your system, or perhaps is exposing just a single folder dedicated to the site good enough for most legitimate purposes. A platform can choose what kind of apps it should support. I don't think it is bad for a platform to decide that it does not want to support the needs of a cryptolocker even if that may be limiting what a user can do.
I don't believe that "think[ing] of [user's security]" is a bad thing. User security is valuable for a platform and is essential for scaling.