Re:OS X – Safe, yet horribly insecure
by LaGrange on Sunday June 26, 2011 @09:37AM
(#2697984)
Stating the obvious: App Store only software installs, and other DRM solutions. And yes, that has a price that people may or may not be willing to pay.
It's somewhat scary, but I'm starting to think that we will be forced to adopt something like that. Computers are used for serious stuff too (payments, medicine, things like that), and, apparently, way too many people can't be trusted to administer their computers securely. Right now people are mostly damaging own life, but if this starts happening to medical records, it's going to go beyond personal security.
It's too bad, really. Even if "developer programs" were free -- i.e., just required asking the corp for a developer key (this could be enforced on state level), it would be more of a hassle than it should be.
Re:OS X – Safe, yet horribly insecure
by tobylane on Sunday June 26, 2011 @03:12PM
(#2698790)
So lets see an option in 10.8, aka Ocelot, where there is a fairly hidden button called Allow non-app store app installs, with a readable (unlike itunes eula), in Security.
It's somewhat scary, but I'm starting to think that we will be forced to adopt something like that. Computers are used for serious stuff too (payments, medicine, things like that), and, apparently, way too many people can't be trusted to administer their computers securely. Right now people are mostly damaging own life, but if this starts happening to medical records, it's going to go beyond personal security.
It's too bad, really. Even if "developer programs" were free -- i.e., just required asking the corp for a developer key (this could be enforced on state level), it would be more of a hassle than it should be.