Comment Re:Effective curation of outside software (Score 1) 198
is not possible because there will always be too many applications.
So.... what are you saying here? That you just download any old executable code you can get your hands on from the Internet?
A serious walled garden would not allow outsider software, but convenience and greed always trump security.
A serious walled garden like... what? Are we talking NSA that goes through serious vetting processes for all of their purchases? Or are we talking about just rolling our own code for everything here? Because Solarwinds has shown that you can get software even into very restricted government agencies through a well executed supply chain attack.
Faux money like Bitcoin will always be more vulnerable than physical objects like precious metals but there is a passionate desire to own symbols without owning objects which crypto fits well.
If you put your life's savings in one place and fail to diversify you're, to put this as kindly as possible, fucking stupid. There is no excuse to live a life of lazy ignorance because it has such painful consequences.
So are we blaming Apple here, the user, or both? I really can't tell. But Apple's walled garden is valuable for a variety of reasons. No one has ever claimed what an application whitelist is 100% effective. That is why Apple also sandboxes applications and implements all kinds of privacy controls and restrictions. So that when a bad apple gets in there the damage is limited. There is literally nothing Apple can do to prevent the user from giving up their banking credentials, though.