Re:MacOS Catalina: Slow by Design?
by AlexandrB on Friday May 22, 2020 @02:20PM
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> Laypeople cannot be trusted to admin their machines
Yeah, but they're the ones who paid for their machines. So... you're saying they're not allowed to use them how they wish?
> Leaving a backdoor to real admin access for the experts just means laypeople will abuse those backdoors and mess up their machines again
Remembering the last 20 years of computer history, most of the critical fail wasn't caused by "laypeople abusing backdoors" but horrible security holes in popular, widely used software packages: Outlook, Flash, Acrobat Reader, Internet Explorer. Apple/Microsoft are not locking down their OSs to protect users from themselves, but rather from other developers. We, software engineers, seem to have completely failed our users as a profession.
Yeah, but they're the ones who paid for their machines. So... you're saying they're not allowed to use them how they wish?
> Leaving a backdoor to real admin access for the experts just means laypeople will abuse those backdoors and mess up their machines again
Remembering the last 20 years of computer history, most of the critical fail wasn't caused by "laypeople abusing backdoors" but horrible security holes in popular, widely used software packages: Outlook, Flash, Acrobat Reader, Internet Explorer. Apple/Microsoft are not locking down their OSs to protect users from themselves, but rather from other developers. We, software engineers, seem to have completely failed our users as a profession.