I would argue that someone who would open a remote access port to the internet with no filtering is exactly the kind of person that Apple needs to protect from themselves

Yeah, it was neat that Claude found this, but Thompson showed an almost criminal lack of security awareness by having VNC/ARD open to the internet

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terminalbraid 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Why does Apple need to protect anyone from themselves? This is the problem with commercial vendors creeping in computing freedom. It is exactly this mentality that people shouldn't be the ones responsible for the hardware and software they own and operate which erodes that freedom.

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mixdup 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Because people will shoot themselves in the foot if you give them a shotgun. A big part of why the Mac as a platform blossomed in the late 2000s forward was because it was much less likely you'd get hacked by clicking the wrong link or just opening an email than it was on a Windows machine (among other reasons)

And, all of that said, Apple hasn't said anything about not letting people have full access to their disks. Just that you're going to have to be very intentional, click through a very scary warning, to do so. Happy to do that to prevent my mom or dad from accidentally opening up their machine to every hacker in Belarus or worse yet Facebook

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terminalbraid 4 hours ago | parent [-]

> Because people will shoot themselves in the foot if you give them a shotgun.

Correct. This is why gun safety is taught. Try and bring up banning shotguns in the US and see what happens.

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		I don't think "let's just stick with how things work in the actual firearms industry" is what I was going for or a sane position to take on just about anything

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GeekyBear 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

For the exact same reason Microsoft created Windows File Protection.

If you don't like System Integrity Protection on your Mac, you can turn it off and YOLO to your heart's content.

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