News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Zoom has a signed binary that runs any unsigned script. Parent comment

Re:Zoom has a signed binary that runs any unsigned script by whywhywhywhy on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @08:28AM (#22747909)
But they only do this stuff to make their software seem fast and easy to install for the non-technical users because of the lock down restrictions...

App Store, Gatekeeper, etc are now working against what they were supposed to solve and encouraging worse developer behavior.

Really the best solution would be tackling the reasons why Zoom are doing this in the first place. Like how they provided a gentler version of Sandboxing to work around pro creative apps being basically unusable in the first versions.

The more you lock it down the more bad behavior you'll encourage from less ethical developers.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Zoom has a signed binary that runs any unsigned script by ericmay on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @08:58AM (#22748074)
Not sure I buy this reasoning. It's like having rules that you can't kill people at your house, so people go outside and do it. Ok if you let people kill inside your house they'll just kill there too AND outside.
[ Parent | on HN ]