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Re:Tim Cook’s Fortnite trial testimony was unexpectedly reve... by lanstin on Sunday May 23, 2021 @01:05PM (#27256590)
It is tricky. Most people are pretty trusting of things they don’t understand. But a world where you walk into a cafe and 80% of the devices around you are malevolent is worse than one where only 5% are malevolent. I would like root on all my devices and also I would like to be able to run apps that want more permissions than I want them to have and they just get fake data when they call get location or whatever. But I don’t want to have to security assess all the apps I might like. To be sure mostly my apps are like the browser, the like doe reader, and find my iPhone. But I do have a weakness for solitaire and free flow and similar games. It seems very hard to get the open source versions of these and the other ones seem to display questionable ethics and to be ad revenue driven (where as I would happily pay a bit for new levels etc).
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Re:Tim Cook’s Fortnite trial testimony was unexpectedly reve... by tolbish on Sunday May 23, 2021 @01:52PM (#27257005)
> Most people are pretty trusting of things they don’t understand.

[citation needed]

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Re:Tim Cook’s Fortnite trial testimony was unexpectedly reve... by jodrellblank on Sunday May 23, 2021 @02:38PM (#27257396)
Gestures around at almost everything.

Cleaning products, anaesthesia, electrical goods, microwaves, internal combustion engines, skyscrapers, hydrogenated vegetable oil and other such ingredients, fire retardant in furniture, blockchains, cryptography, smoke detectors, x-rays, coronary bypass surgery, bridges, hydraulics, reservoirs, water treatment plants, refridgerators. Would you say the people who understand them in some meaningful way is >50% of the people who use/benefit from them them?

If people see others doing something, we assume it must be okay to do. If we see others selling something, we assume it must be okay to buy and use. We default to yes (pretty trusting), unless it's proven otherwise strongly enough to be banned.

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