Comment Re:Tim Cook's first big fuckup. (Score 1) 376
There is an inherent flaw in this thinking, and this flaw also shows us why large powerful governments are a bad idea,. That flaw is trust, or more specifically, trust in a single entity. Think about it. Almost every malware attack vector starts with exploiting a common point of trust (eg. You trust java or flash or your browser). When trust is centralized, the baddies only need to focus their efforts on subverting that single point. This is true in both government, and information security. My point is, creating an eco system that relies on a central point of trust is setting us up for failure. (sorry for typos, using a tablet)
While I absolutely agree with you that a single authority is a dangerous thing to have, what is even worse is to mix different levels of trust. That is what we have have been living with up to this point. There hasn't really been any restrictions on what applications can do on the system in the context of the user running it. It takes only one malicious or badly written software to compromise the security of your whole system. By sandboxing the different pieces of software in the system, the security of the whole system would no longer be equal to the security of the lowest common denominator. (Up to this point, I rarely install any software simply because I have no control or assurance what it is doing on the system. With iOS I felt for the first time somewhat confident to install 3rd party apps from developers I never heard about)