Re:U.S. Navy bans TikTok from government-issued mobile devices
by dahfizz on Sunday December 22, 2019 @10:42PM
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I had a feeling that this was just an uninformed user, thank you for clarifying.
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Re:U.S. Navy bans TikTok from government-issued mobile devices
by thaumasiotes on Monday December 23, 2019 @02:50PM
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You've described the same system I just said I didn't want. But I'm uninformed for complaining that I want something different?
> Applications (at least on Linux) have no idea what device they are using. They just request a connection to an IP and it's the kernels job to route that request correctly.
This is a bad idea. I want to connect the application to the device I think it should use. It shouldn't be able to find anything I don't tell it about.
Re:U.S. Navy bans TikTok from government-issued mobile devices
by nl on Monday December 23, 2019 @04:57PM
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>> Applications (at least on Linux) have no idea what device they are using. They just request a connection to an IP and it's the kernels job to route that request correctly.
> This is a bad idea. I want to connect the application to the device I think it should use. It shouldn't be able to find anything I don't tell it about.
Telling applications about resources is literally what the operating system is for. Both Linux and Windows let you do what you want.