Any numbers on exactly how much safer the average user will be? How many scams are we stopping here? I don't know anybody outside of technical people who install apps outside the playstore. And what can a malicious app do exactly? They're sandboxed
Some sort of middle ground should have been found where the unpublished package is still accessible as an archive or something. I'd much rather get my package broken than get hacked
"Like the team that decided I need to pay $150 a year to sign software to put in the app store, or whatever jerk put RFID tags on the water filters in my fridge like a sort of drinking rights management. Good technologists should be interested in cryptography and the power it brings, but also be careful about what they might set into motion."
I agree with you but the whole thing makes me uncomfortable. We're definitely making it easier for these security conscious companies to do vendor lock in if we encourage passkey use.
Hey Omar! I met you briefly in Grenoble many years ago. I hope you're doing well.
I only recently watched this series and found it very entertaining. But I never expected it to be very accurate. It's definitely been dramatized for TV. I definitely didn't get an anti-nuclear sentiment from the show, I mostly think they were trying to portray a negative view of Soviet Bureaucracy.
Dumb question but why /do/ browsers move quick? Surely we are nearing feature complete. Is it just the complexity of the task? I'm sure there are lots of awful bugs.