Re:The web is swallowing the desktop whole (2017)
by citrin_ru on Thursday September 09, 2021 @09:57AM
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If you trust a developer - why not? And if not then an app store model is not a panacea - there are examples of pushing fraudulent/malicious app into them.
Better sandboxing would be welcome, but it coming to desktop slowly (and it typically can only limit damage from a malicious app, but not prevent it fully).
Web-apps come with own security trade-off: infrastructure can have poor security and data can be leaked (and or destroyed) by hackers, a government can request all you data without you knowing about this, your data can be abused by an web-app creator e. g. sold to an Ad targeting company.
Better sandboxing would be welcome, but it coming to desktop slowly (and it typically can only limit damage from a malicious app, but not prevent it fully).
Web-apps come with own security trade-off: infrastructure can have poor security and data can be leaked (and or destroyed) by hackers, a government can request all you data without you knowing about this, your data can be abused by an web-app creator e. g. sold to an Ad targeting company.