[kelnos]

Your argument is of course absurd, but in general, I think it is a reasonable position to take. The grandmother of someone I know was social engineered into installing a malicious app and changing developer settings on a phone, and lost quite a lot of money. The grandson is at this point absolutely in favor of completely removing the things that allowed that attack vector (I believe in this case it's "merely" the ability to install apps from unknown sources).

I disagree with him. While yes, it's awful and tragic that happened to his grandmother, I think it's incredibly dangerous to allow companies to lock down our devices like that. And I think from a practical perspective, we're never going to be able to eliminate these attack vectors fully; if the grandmother was going to go along with this scammer in this particular way, there would always be some vector that she would fall for, no matter how hard we might try to lock them down.

But I can't bring myself to say his stance is unreasonable. He's dealing with a devastated family member whose retirement is now ruined, and he has to help her pick up the pieces. Not a good position to be in.