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sam_lowry_ 9 days ago

Services, by definition, serve. Why should we, the users, care about their guarantees?

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charcircuit 9 days ago | parent [-]

Because users want the services they use to be good. They don't want to be sent phishing links from their friend's account that was hijacked by attackers.

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sam_lowry_ 9 days ago | parent [-]

I had a meeting with a public servant this morning. He is part of an organization that promotes multi-factor authentication and publicly endorses the view that users are stupid.

The meeting was about him unable to test the APK of the new version of their mobile app. He felt embarrassed, his mobile phone is enrolled in the MDM scheme that disallows side-loading of apps.

What I am trying to say is that assuming users are stupid carries a non-negligible risk that you will be that stupid user one day.

	▲	charcircuit 9 days ago \| parent [-]
		The solution here sounds like having a separate development device that is used to sideload test versions of the app. The idea is that devices may require different levels of security depending on how much can be accessed from that device.