Re:Consider disabling HTTPS auto redirects
by josephcsible on Monday June 27, 2022 @05:35PM
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> How much longer is "longer" supposed to be?
For as long as nobody else is capable of doing so. Don't forget the part where I said "or open-source everything so that the community can". If they did that from day 1, I wouldn't care if they never provided any official updates.
Also scripts. Even if the site itself is completely uninteresting to an attacker, he can still inject scripts which attack 3rd-party sites or exploit browser vulnerabilites to gain access to the machine. (Though, to be fair, the same is possible with ads)
> If you care about sustainable technology, you should be demanding that Apple provide updates for hardware longer, or open-source everything so that the community can.
I can't really agree with that point. How much longer is "longer" supposed to be? 6 years? 10 years? 50 years? To a software dev, supporting any piece of technology for 50 years sounds completely outrageous, yet that was the generally accepted lifespan of many consumer devices not long ago.
IMO, hardware/software that requires continuous updates is not sustainable, period. At some point, you'll always be in a position where the vendor is unwilling to keep up work for a product. Maybe you'll have some volunteers to fill the gap, but that's nothing that you can take for granted. At that point, if the device becomes e-waste, it's not sustainable.