| ▲ | danielheath 4 hours ago | |||||||
Yes, we should be. My computer should run programs when I tell it to run them. Don’t blunt _every_ tool just to make them harder to cut yourself on. | ||||||||
| ▲ | angry_octet 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||
I hope you're in the very small minority of people who rigorously manage untrusted downloads and whitelist every binary, because you're operating an appliance from the 1970s, sticking a metal fork into an un-earthed toaster. Most people need help from their operating system. | ||||||||
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| ▲ | rtpg 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||
Increased metadata isn't tool blunting in itself though, even if MacOS uses it for being... annoying is one way of saying it. Provenance information bundled into a file is not the worst idea in the world IMO. We have created/modified timestamps on files already, right? There's definitely the question of "why" but hey if more of my binaries just had at least a tag about who put them there that would be a win in my book. Not an argument for doing what MacOS does, just an argument that the info would be nice to have. | ||||||||
| ▲ | danishanish an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||
It’s not blunting a tool, it’s sheathing it. Modern software requires too much proxied trust for this attitude to work. | ||||||||
| ▲ | Joker_vD 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||
I sincerely agree. By the way, thanks for lending your machine for my "Network-Retransmission-and-Compute-as-a-service" network. | ||||||||