I’m torn on this. On one hand I’m glad that companies are taking security more seriously and are taking steps. On the other hand, you make a great point do we need our hands held? My gut says this could get overbearing and way to restrictive but then I see posts from people who probably don’t understand the ramifications asking for step by step directions how to turn off a feature that may not need disabling. No harm in asking I just get concerned if someone doesn’t have a full understanding of the impact of what they are doing and does it and then infects others. Maybe the way to go is the way it’s being done. Enable the feature, have a means to disable it but make the means to disable tricky enough that it requires some reading first where one could be informed of the risks. I don’t know. I’m the first to say don’t tell me what to do with my own hardware but I also see on a daily basis how much malware traffic is out there and it’s a massive amount. As in many things, it sounds like a balancing act.
> On Sep 18, 2015, at 11:25 AM, Sabahattin Gucukoglu <[email protected]> wrote: > > Who’s happy? Everyone, I guess, except nerds—not even the nerds who gave > their loved ones iPads because they’re invulnerable to all the > spyware/ransomeware/whatever that spawns all the time on Windows boxen. > > It’s a trend. I don’t think it’s a good trend, in much the same way that I > don’t think it would be a good trend for kitchen knives to be blunted because > you can do accidental or deliberate harm with them. But eh, I get it. I > can’t print “An Idiot’s Guide To Computer Security: every wrong move that’ll > get me infected and a punch in the mouth” on the default printer of newly > updated copies of $OS, so I’ll just restrain the user in a straightjacket > instead. I’ll even allow them to choose a colour. Bleh. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
