Hackers used zerodays to infect Windows, iOS, and Android users

Re:Hackers used zerodays to infect Windows, iOS, and Android... by dmos62 on Friday March 19, 2021 @06:38AM (#26511834)

Diversity is a sign of health in an ecosystem. But, increasing diversity directly isn't really viable. Question is, why is diversity low?

In my opinion, Web, OSes and CPUs suffer from being overly complicated, closed-source ridden, non-modular systems-within-systems. Basicly, the opposite of what the Unix philosophy advocates.

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Re:Hackers used zerodays to infect Windows, iOS, and Android... by zzo38computer on Friday March 19, 2021 @03:07PM (#26517172)

I agree. They are too complicated. Some more work toward making better one will be helpful.

Protocols and instruction sets etc will need to be not too complicated, in addition to being open source and fully documented.

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Re:Hackers used zerodays to infect Windows, iOS, and Android... by qrbLPHiKpiux on Friday March 19, 2021 @07:18AM (#26512027)

Diversity is low because of the massive amounts of capital Google has. Both in terms of money and power.

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Re:Hackers used zerodays to infect Windows, iOS, and Android... by dmos62 on Friday March 19, 2021 @08:23AM (#26512441)

If a Web browser were easier to implement, we would have more than ~3 well maintained engines. In other words, why should Web require massive amounts of capital?

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Re:Hackers used zerodays to infect Windows, iOS, and Android... by EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK on Friday March 19, 2021 @02:16PM (#26516653)

Feature creep. Everyone wants to leave a footprint in the world. Same thing with legislation.

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