Comment by JumpCrisscross
5 hours ago
> What we actually want is to be rid of middlemen imposing arbitrary restrictions on how Alice can use her own device
Isn’t it difficult to do this without rolling out a welcome mat for NSO et al?
5 hours ago
> What we actually want is to be rid of middlemen imposing arbitrary restrictions on how Alice can use her own device
Isn’t it difficult to do this without rolling out a welcome mat for NSO et al?
I don't see the problem here. Nobody should be able to install or disallow installation of software on a device except for the end user.
> Nobody should be able to install or disallow installation of software on a device except for the end user
This is a value statement. There is more public concern and support for security and freedom to use commercial software than there is for using it as a Stallmanesque general-purpose computer.
End users aren’t phone experts, and a huge portion of end users would like to completely delegate this decision to phone security experts at their handset manufacturer.
And nobody is trying to stop them.
I'm not your grandma, though, and I'll thank you (and Apple) for not treating me as if I were.
I, for one, won’t be installing anything from the NSO Store. Sure, call me paranoid, but I just don’t trust it.