Comment by chr15m
2 days ago
I'm sure that would work just like how phone apps asking for permission to do each thing has resulted in no phone user ever getting pwned and doxxed by their apps - phone apps are completely safe now, yay!
2 days ago
I'm sure that would work just like how phone apps asking for permission to do each thing has resulted in no phone user ever getting pwned and doxxed by their apps - phone apps are completely safe now, yay!
I think we're talking about fundamentally different things. :) You're talking about the UX of granting permissions, I'm talking about how permissions get implemented at the technical level, irrespective of how you arrived at them.
Surely your proposed solution is not "Don't implement a permission system to begin with"?
Sorry about the sarcasm in my reply.
I guess what I am saying is at the end of the day you need the program to do the thing. Whatever mutation it needs to do to accomplish the task, that's what you're going to allow. That's exactly what happens with phone app permissions. Everybody just lets Facebook use their microphone (not me of course, but most people).
What you describe would be super cool though. If every program let you know ahead of time what it was going to try to read and write in the world. That does indeed sound useful!