Comment by danielheath
13 hours ago
Yes, we should be.
My computer should run programs when I tell it to run them.
Don’t blunt _every_ tool just to make them harder to cut yourself on.
13 hours ago
Yes, we should be.
My computer should run programs when I tell it to run them.
Don’t blunt _every_ tool just to make them harder to cut yourself on.
I hope you're in the very small minority of people who rigorously manage untrusted downloads and whitelist every binary, because you're operating an appliance from the 1970s, sticking a metal fork into an un-earthed toaster. Most people need help from their operating system.
then we, the very small minority, want a button to disable that help.
Increased metadata isn't tool blunting in itself though, even if MacOS uses it for being... annoying is one way of saying it.
Provenance information bundled into a file is not the worst idea in the world IMO. We have created/modified timestamps on files already, right? There's definitely the question of "why" but hey if more of my binaries just had at least a tag about who put them there that would be a win in my book.
Not an argument for doing what MacOS does, just an argument that the info would be nice to have.
It’s not blunting a tool, it’s sheathing it. Modern software requires too much proxied trust for this attitude to work.
I sincerely agree. By the way, thanks for lending your machine for my "Network-Retransmission-and-Compute-as-a-service" network.