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Re:Facebook iOS App Scrapes Your Clipboard? by danielheath on Monday October 19, 2015 @01:17AM (#10411254)
I tend to think of systems which don't sandbox each process effectively as 'toys' since I can't meaningfully trust them to run code I haven't audited.
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Re:Facebook iOS App Scrapes Your Clipboard? by TeMPOraL on Monday October 19, 2015 @01:47AM (#10411322)
You can't trust sandboxed systems either, and honestly, who ever audits the code they run? "Auditing code" is a smart-sounding phrase that is meaningless to 99% of users. Also, have you audited your sandbox's code yet?

I consider mobile apps toys because they're designed to contain and own your data, and that impares both the ergonomy of work and limits your capability for doing things to whatever is available in the MVP some startup released. Most apps don't evolve past the point of MVP.

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Re:Facebook iOS App Scrapes Your Clipboard? by h1282227 on Monday October 19, 2015 @04:12AM (#10411727)
In other words.

Real scissors are toys but plastic scissors are not toys since you can't hurt yourself with them.

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Re:Facebook iOS App Scrapes Your Clipboard? by reitanqild on Monday October 19, 2015 @03:04AM (#10411529)
A chainsaw is also dangerous. You have to know how to use it and you should use protective gear.

Definitely not a "toy".

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