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Re:Apple removes $99 dev account requirement for first iOS 1... by derefr on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @03:29PM (#36232194)
If they told you how to do it, then what would even be the point? The whole idea is to add a stumbling block in the path of malware authors getting users to run a trojan.

Anything the user learns to do by rote without first understanding the security implications provides zero security. Like the Windows Vista elevation prompt — users just learned to hit "Yes" and got infected anyway.

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Re:Apple removes $99 dev account requirement for first iOS 1... by ris58h on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @03:39PM (#36232360)
> If they told you how to do it, then what would even be the point?

To warn a user.

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Re:Apple removes $99 dev account requirement for first iOS 1... by derefr on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @03:44PM (#36232426)
And what would be the point of doing that? You have to have some behavioral outcome you expect.

Do you expect people to react by not running the program? Why? If you find out that they are in fact still running the program just as much with the warning in place, because they aren't reading the warning... then have you actually "warned the user"?

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