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Re:I help seniors with technology issues. A regular came in ... by unsupp0rted on Monday October 24, 2022 @08:02AM (#33315594)
OSX doesn’t surprise me in hostile ways
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Re:I help seniors with technology issues. A regular came in ... by fsflover on Monday October 24, 2022 @08:12AM (#33315679)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25074959
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Re:I help seniors with technology issues. A regular came in ... by shishy on Monday October 24, 2022 @09:58AM (#33316688)
That sounds like it was a bug / mistake than a deliberate decision by the company unless I misunderstood something?
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Re:I help seniors with technology issues. A regular came in ... by fsflover on Monday October 24, 2022 @10:07AM (#33316791)
Information about every executable your run on "your" laptop goes to a special server belonging to Apple. It must be a huge and costly mistake...
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Re:I help seniors with technology issues. A regular came in ... by fsflover on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @08:36AM (#33342732)
But it is.
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Re:I help seniors with technology issues. A regular came in ... by such12 on Thursday October 27, 2022 @01:54PM (#33361354)
No it isn’t. Most apple users rely on apple to protect them from threats.
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Re:I help seniors with technology issues. A regular came in ... by fsflover on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @12:59PM (#33439081)
The best security you can get is in prison. I wonder why people don't want to go there. /s

You can implement malware check in many ways. This one is the worst; it also introduces a huge attack surface.

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