An erra is to come to an end as the Eu says enough is enough and introduces new rules and hefty fines.

  • demesisx@infosec.pub
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    1 month ago

    Let’s go one further and compel Apple, Microsoft, and Google to open source their entire operating systems. :)

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      1 month ago

      I am almost certain there would be two major impacts from that. The first being that operating system development would slow to the pace that the community wishes instead of having big money behind it. And the second is that security updates would come quite a bit faster.

      Edit: I figure brand new major features would be slower in coming. But security would be improved.

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        1 month ago

        I figure brand new major features would be slower in coming. But security would be improved.

        I feel there’s going to be an element of “old man yells at cloud” here, but that isn’t inherently a bad thing. I just use Windows at work at the moment but there’s very little I do in Windows that I couldn’t do as far back as Windows XP as long as driver support kept up. I don’t use it for the OS, the OS just enables me to use the applications I need.

        Same with MacOS. I know Apple always act like every minor enhancement is the greatest thing ever (look, we added Tabs to Finder 🤩), but ultimately the OS is there to act as the pathway between my applications and my hardware.

        If the focus switched from features to security, would we really lose anything of value? At a minimum I wouldn’t have family contacting me cause their PC looks different than it did previously (looking at you centralised Windows taskbar 👀).

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        1 month ago

        The operating system that runs most servers, a lot of them doing web cloud and networking, with high levels of security (developed by security companies) is open source, the *BSD distributions and also Linux.
        But I also have doubts if this is the right move.

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          1 month ago

          But I also have doubts if this is the right move

          Can you share those and the reasoning, please?

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            1 month ago

            Sorry for replying late.
            iOS is a key component in apple’s business and I’m not sure this won’t set a precedent. I think we need competitiveness in industry, albeit a fair one.

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              1 month ago

              No worries, and that actually makes sense, now that you mention it. Thank you for your reply.