Comment by lazyasciiart

3 days ago

My grandma does want tech because she loves sharing pictures with her grandchildren throughout the day. That doesn’t mean she wants to send money to Nigeria through a fake banking app?

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dgellow  3 days ago

You grandma can keep the „restricted“ flag on then. I will be happy to disable it on my device

  • ceejayoz  3 days ago

    Grandma will also be happy to disable it when the nice man from Microsoft phone support calls in to remotely fix the viruses she has.

    • grishka  3 days ago

      Then maybe everyone needs to be educated to never ever trust incoming calls from unknown numbers? Or maybe these need to be blocked at the carriers? We have all this AI crap now but for some reason we can't deploy it to detect scam calls. We instead use it to automate the work that doesn't need automation, like software engineering or copywriting or art.

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  • macintux  3 days ago

    My concern has been that companies with a huge install base (hi, Meta) would take advantage of this: "in order to provide you with the best experience, you have to turn off the restricted flag to install the next release of our app".

    And then, billions of users cry out in pain as their private data is hoovered into the panopticon in the cloud.

    • bigyabai  3 days ago

      > And then, billions of users cry out in pain as their private data is hoovered into the panopticon in the cloud.

      That's not how data collection works? It's Apple's responsibility to prevent their application runtime from exposing private data or unnecessary entitlements. Enabling sideloading does not prevent Apple from protecting user data any more than the App Store does.

    • Terr_  3 days ago

      One thing we could do is abolish the "anti-circumvention" laws, where the government goes after you with criminal penalties for "contempt of business-model" for interfering with how a company wishes it's code would run on your computer.

      Then it would be legal for someone to develop and give-away a patch for the Meta app...

    • iamnothere  3 days ago

      Exactly, and it’s impossible to regulate those business practices! Don’t even try! Better to limit what people can do on their own computing devices, or better yet remove that ownership entirely.

  • zimpenfish  3 days ago

    That's great until your device is weaponised against others (see: open HTTP proxies, open DNS resolvers, open SMTP servers, several billion IoT devices, and countless other examples)

    • kalleboo  2 days ago

      Those issues could be diminished if ISPs actually handled abuse requests and shut down people's connections until they removed their malware.

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    • iamnothere  3 days ago

      Exactly, which is why we shouldn’t be allowing user “software installs” on any device, not just phones. The world would be a lot better if all tech were fully locked down, “freedom” be damned.

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