News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Google to require developer verification to install and sideload Android apps. Parent comment

Re:Google to require developer verification to install and s... by BiteCode_dev on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @11:51AM (#45028235)
Millenials here. We did. A lot of a lot. And nobody cared.

Even today on HN most use chrome instead of firefox and mac instead of linux and. If you can't even convince the biggest nerds that supporting alternatives is important, what chances do you have?

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Google to require developer verification to install and s... by hollerith on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @11:52AM (#45028253)
This nerd cares about security, and Chrome is significantly more secure than Firefox and Mac is significantly more secure than any Linux distro.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Google to require developer verification to install and s... by zerreh50 on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @12:26PM (#45028758)
99% of the time security is about securing the product from the user. Just like Google's action we're commenting under
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Google to require developer verification to install and s... by dmbche on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @04:53PM (#45032185)
I must be a shit nerd, I've never in my life thought about browser safety.

How the hell is chrome significantly more secure than firefox?

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Google to require developer verification to install and s... by tgma on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @11:21PM (#45035128)
> Mac is significantly more secure than any Linux distro.

Citation needed.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Google to require developer verification to install and s... by fsflover on Thursday August 28, 2025 @10:18AM (#45052479)
If you actually cared about security, you would use Qubes OS. With the latter, security of Firefox is more than sufficient for everything.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Google to require developer verification to install and s... by hollerith on Friday August 29, 2025 @09:46PM (#45071226)
MacOS is more secure than Qubes IMO.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Google to require developer verification to install and s... by fsflover on Saturday August 30, 2025 @03:34AM (#45072673)
You should just compare the number of CVEs. Qubes security is stronger even than the one of Xen used in servers: https://www.qubes-os.org/security/xsa/#statistics. Even Snowden uses Qubes.

No single app has access to any data thanks to hardware-assisted virtualization. Last time a VM escape in the modern Qubes implementation was discovered in 2006 by the Qubes founder: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Pill_(software).

[ Parent | on HN ]