> arguing that we should instead give that control to Apple is just swapping out who's holding the gun.
apple wrote the OS, in this scenario they're already holding a nuke, and getting the gun out of crowdstrike's hands is in fact a win.
it is self-evident that 300 countries having nukes is less safe than 5 countries having them. Getting nukes (kernel modules) out of the hands of randos is a good thing even if the OS vendor still has kernel access (which they couldn't possibly not have) and might have problems of their own. IDK why that's even worthy of having to be stated.
don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good, incremental improvements in the state of things is still improvement. there is a silly amount of black-and-white thinking around "popular" targets like apple and nvidia (see: anything to do with the open-firmware-driver) etc.
"sure google is taking all your personal data and using it to target ads to your web searches, but apple also has sponsored/promoted apps in the app store!" is a similarly trite level of discourse that is nonetheless tolerated when it's targeted at the right brand.
apple wrote the OS, in this scenario they're already holding a nuke, and getting the gun out of crowdstrike's hands is in fact a win.
it is self-evident that 300 countries having nukes is less safe than 5 countries having them. Getting nukes (kernel modules) out of the hands of randos is a good thing even if the OS vendor still has kernel access (which they couldn't possibly not have) and might have problems of their own. IDK why that's even worthy of having to be stated.
don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good, incremental improvements in the state of things is still improvement. there is a silly amount of black-and-white thinking around "popular" targets like apple and nvidia (see: anything to do with the open-firmware-driver) etc.
"sure google is taking all your personal data and using it to target ads to your web searches, but apple also has sponsored/promoted apps in the app store!" is a similarly trite level of discourse that is nonetheless tolerated when it's targeted at the right brand.