Comment by rmunn
13 hours ago
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonneville_Salt_Flats — the salt flats are extremely flat (as the name implies), and because of all the salt, no vegetation can survive. Look at the pictures: there are no trees, no grass, no hiding places at all. Anyone standing (or even lying prone) on the salt flats is visible to anyone else for miles around.
GP was saying that systems should be "transparent enough that a compromised system is obvious". I'm not entirely convinced that that's possible (On Trusting Trust should have taught us that compromised systems can create places for the compromise to hide), which means that the salt flats analogy is not a great analogy, IMHO. But at least now you understand the analogy.
I don’t think the analogy was the issue. What does it mean for a system to be so transparent that it’s obvious when it’s compromised?
I was thinking it would even go so far as to make the background red if it failed some heuristics.
That what apps have permission to access/record what at what times they use it, shouldn't be hidden or scaterred across several Settings panels.
I can’t speak for the ancestor, but I think making every screen recording app prominently visible in the status bar would fit the bill.