No. Why was Windows 7 so insecure? Microsoft is still printing money. It sold this operating system—made $ billions.https://twitter.com/ianbetteridge/status/863055192975167488 …
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They made billions and billions in profits, and had decades and decades. I'm not judging them on a curve like that.https://twitter.com/ianbetteridge/status/863056864300421120 …
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Yes! We should absolutely hold responsible a car company that didn't ship brakes and seatbelts.https://twitter.com/ianbetteridge/status/863058459616530439 …
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The tech world wants all the profits, none of the responsibility. The whole thing is set up to fail people, but never hurt profits.
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Of course software has bugs. Don't tell me that as if you just learned it. We've known this forever. That's why the set up is unacceptable.
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This is a wildly misplaced argument. You're asking for bug-free software while absolving corps that didn't bother deploying the bug fixes
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I am doing neither. Everyone should update their software. Everything has bugs. But it's not that simple for multiple reasons.
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First, the update system is set up to fail users, and sometimes forces people to trade privacy for (newer) more secure OS.
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2-It's been decades and we still don't have properly sandboxed operating systems, and software sold with zero liability. These are linked.
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Sure, it would be costly to do things and somehow properly incentive users and be transparent. But that is the actual product.
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Meanwhile, Microsoft is sitting on $100 billion cash hoard, and children's ambulances are being diverted. There are paths forward.
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But the paths forward require spending real money to get whomever is still not on it to Win 10; to stop pushing privacy/security trade-off.
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Companies want to 1-ship as is; 2-never pay a financial penalty; 3-push the whole thing to users; 4-design the update system to fail.
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