What @fugueish said. I would love to see us be more willing to block insecure downloads, but the least we can do is require user permission.
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I agree that adding friction will make us feel better; I don't know how much security it will add
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The kind of friction I’d suggest adding for insecure downloads is a brick wall. (I guess that’s not really friction, but I like it!)
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Yeah, I also would like to go that route somehow without breaking the internet.
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Slowly but surely ratcheting up the constraints seems like a reasonable way of doing that. Maybe we could start blocking unsigned binaries?
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TBH I don't think most people should install binaries at all. I wonder what % of binaries in general do what the installer intended?
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Just having the OS not be able to exec without +x perm, and not making a chmod gui, would accomplish the same.
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Also killing "file associations".
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