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Comment by palata

7 hours ago

Phishing will always exist. If a system is very secure, the easiest way to attack it is to phish the human that has control over it. Complaining about that is weird... what do the people who complain want? One of those two:

- "Please make the system less secure, so that the attackers don't have to attack the human because they can just compromise the system directly"

- "Please keep making the system secure, and keep removing rights from the users, because the users prove over and over again that they cannot be trusted with anything"

You see where I am going. If you only optimise for security, then you remove all the freedom. But we obviously want freedom. So it's a compromise.

Now this compromise is a choice, and different systems can make different compromises. The freedom I want is the freedom to choose my system. I want to be able to install GrapheneOS on my phone. Complaining about macOS not being Linux would be weird: if I want Linux, I use Linux. If I use macOS, well then I have to live with the design choices of Apple.