Comment by throwaway290
3 months ago
Another instalment of HN thread where people try their best to pretend that "security" does not come with "enforced, ideally at hardware level, inability to run random code" for 99% of phone users.
Here a tip: you won't solve the problem of security by just whining about corporate interests (which is a real concern) and NOT proposing a better solution that works for an average tech illiterate, very socially engineerable person trained to ignore every warning screen. And no root switch is not that solution because it will be flipped on day 1.
Nothing about this prevents random code running.
You still need an app with far too many permissions to pay for parking. All this does and funnel that through the play store.
Guess what - play store is infested with malware. In fact, most malware comes from the play store. This fixes nothing.
There's so much less malware in the walled gardens compared to wild internet, it's crazy
There is still some
I don't think this is true, sorry. The reality is 99% of malware is going to target where people actually get software from.
Granny isn't rooting her phone and installing unsigned binaries.
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I say let people shoot themselves in the foot if they want. That's the cost of a free society.
You expect random people like your baker next door to be security experts who can beat top notch hackers. It just doesn't work like that. Even you may not be as good as you think is required to protect yourself in the wild internets
Also many of them will be your family (if you have it). Maybe even those from whom you would have inherited something if only they were not hacked