Re:Ask HN: How do you trust that your personal machine is no...
by lukan on Monday January 16, 2023 @06:53PM
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"You never get nagged to take $5 out of your wallet to hand to an untrusted person"
I suppose, you never have been to a significantly poorer country? (outside of the protected tourist areas).
Or well, spend time with kids, who really want something.
Begging can get very intense.
And about file permissions, well - are you aware, what kind of permissions the standard free app on the google play store will ask of people? And yes, I won't use them. But I use WhatsApp. Did not wanted to give permission to read contacts, or wide file access. But denying it, means it is allmost unusable, so I also eventually gave in ..
I suppose, you never have been to a significantly poorer country? (outside of the protected tourist areas).
Or well, spend time with kids, who really want something.
Begging can get very intense.
And about file permissions, well - are you aware, what kind of permissions the standard free app on the google play store will ask of people? And yes, I won't use them. But I use WhatsApp. Did not wanted to give permission to read contacts, or wide file access. But denying it, means it is allmost unusable, so I also eventually gave in ..