I feel 100x safer in a Waymo than an Uber in SF. That said I did have a Waymo lose its mind and take me to a random alley in Chinatown at 3am…that was fun.
We always used these in red teams…scatter them around the client’s office. Haven’t seen malicious thumb drives fail once bc there’s always someone thirsty enough to plug one in.
After the first year of the pandemic I deleted all work apps off my phone — just remove the ability for Slack/Teams, GCal, Lattice, Figma, etc. to constantly badger you.
People will call if it’s actually urgent. But gotta protect/prioritize yourself in this new faux-remote reality.
Optimizing for people who want to side load ~and~ cannot click the build button in Xcode seems wild to me. (No disrespect!)
It’s identical though in that <when one side loads> one is <completely disconnect from the ecosystem of the device manufacturer>.
Re: side loading binaries/APKs on my actual phone that’s logged into my actual bank account? Hard pass. There’s a time and place for lax security. This is what air gapping is for.
Thank you for your thoughtful response! I think we’re in full agreement — which is weird on the Internet.
> There is some reasonable cost involved […]
Apple is just taking a profit like your corner store, COOP, Migros, etc. Is it reasonable? Don’t know! Are profit margins how most business operate? That is for sure.
There is tooling to manage self-signed certs beyond the seven day window. Unrelated but I find it weird that “you have to compile the app” is a bad thing now.
iOS has allowed side loading for half a decade now. Companies that find $100 prohibitive have a free path that’s nearly identical to Android side loading.