> What we actually want is to be rid of middlemen imposing arbitrary restrictions on how Alice can use her own device
Isn’t it difficult to do this without rolling out a welcome mat for NSO et al?
Isn’t it difficult to do this without rolling out a welcome mat for NSO et al?
This is a value statement. There is more public concern and support for security and freedom to use commercial software than there is for using it as a Stallmanesque general-purpose computer.
I'm not your grandma, though, and I'll thank you (and Apple) for not treating me as if I were.
Sideloading blows a hole in that security guarantee