Your Computer Isn't Yours
Jeffrey Paul,
Nov 13, 2020
One big difference between computers and mobile phones has historically been the amount of control vendors exercised over your platform. As a computer manufacturer, Apple has always trended toward the lock-down approach favoured in the telcom sector, and now with their new operating system, they've achieved that degree of lockdown in laptops and desktops. "In the current version of the macOS, the OS sends to Apple a hash (unique identifier) of each and every program you run, when you run it." Run unauthorized software, and it knows, and can lock you down. " Today the server got really slow and it didn't hit the fail-fast code path, and everyone's apps failed to open if they were connected to the internet." What a nightmare. More. Note that as Apple rolls out its own processing chips this lockdown will get even tighter.
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