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Re:U.S. House committee approves blueprint for Big Tech crac... by zepto on Friday April 16, 2021 @10:55AM (#26834654)
> How does literally every single other platform manage this? AFAIK none of Android, Windows, the many Unix-like OSs, even Apple's MacOs have such restrictions on browser apps.

They don’t. All of those platforms are less secure than iOS.

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Re:U.S. House committee approves blueprint for Big Tech crac... by heavyset_go on Friday April 16, 2021 @02:06PM (#26837202)
And yet iOS exploits are cheaper than Android exploits because iOS exploits are so plentiful[1][2].

[1] https://www.theregister.com/2020/05/14/zerodium_ios_flaws/

[2] http://zerodium.com/program.html

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Re:U.S. House committee approves blueprint for Big Tech crac... by zepto on Friday April 16, 2021 @05:02PM (#26839057)
That’s a function of unsold inventory and the usefulness of exploits and nothing to do with the number of possible exploits.
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Re:U.S. House committee approves blueprint for Big Tech crac... by traib on Friday April 16, 2021 @11:28AM (#26835067)
> All of those platforms are less secure than iOS.

Do you have a source for this statement, specifically in relation to browsers?

Let's consider Android. I wouldn't automatically assume that using Safari on iOS is more (or less) secure than using Chrome or Firefox on Android - they are all provided by well known tech companies with years of expertise building browsers and a focus on security.

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Re:U.S. House committee approves blueprint for Big Tech crac... by zepto on Friday April 16, 2021 @11:38AM (#26835214)
Android is definitely less secure than iOS, you can easily verify this by googling.

Controlling the execution environment is part of iOS’s defense in depth strategy. Focussing on browsers alone is a red herring. You have to look at the whole system.

It’s true that Google or Mozilla may be able to produce an equivalent level of security in a browser engine, but that’s a false comparison, since alternative browsers are not limited to just these companies.

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Re:U.S. House committee approves blueprint for Big Tech crac... by jonny_eh on Friday April 16, 2021 @12:17PM (#26835795)
> Android is definitely less secure than iOS, you can easily verify this by googling.

You can also verify that the world is run by lizard people by googling.

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Re:U.S. House committee approves blueprint for Big Tech crac... by tick_tock_tick on Friday April 16, 2021 @01:53PM (#26837056)
iOS still runs main parts of its text rendering in kernel space. It is by definition less secure than almost any other operating system.
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Re:U.S. House committee approves blueprint for Big Tech crac... by zepto on Friday April 16, 2021 @02:00PM (#26837153)
And yet somehow isn’t as plagued by botnets and banking Trojans etc.
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