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hexomancer
665 days ago
That's why I said the user has to explicitly accept that.
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HexDecOctBin
665 days ago
Who do you think downloads and runs malware? Users.
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hexomancer
665 days ago
By the same argument we should prevents the users from running any program at all because it might be malware.
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Am4TIfIsER0ppos
665 days ago
That is indeed what many people want! Look at people defending "app stores" as being for the users' own good, and sometimes everyone else's.
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HexDecOctBin
664 days ago
No, but we shouldn't treat user's freedom as an anti-virus mechanism. Pretending that user acceptance will help in preventing malwares is extremely naive.
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