On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 9:44 PM, Peter Kasting<[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 9:39 PM, Michael Davidson <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Personally, I'd rather have my CPU and RAM used to send spam than to >> have pictures of me in my underwear publicly placed on Facebook. > > The rest of the world would rather not receive that spam, and would probably > rather we didn't write systems enabling it on massive scales.
I agree 100%. I'm only trying to argue that from a user perspective, access that we currently have acceptable UI for, e.g. camera hardware, is about as scary as agreeing to let a web app run in the background. The consequences of a malicious app that gets either permission are dire. Michael
