> direct exploitation is only really a short term problem - at most for one generation of people growing up with friends making funny videos of things they didn't do
For sure, but there's a window of opportunity in which an attacker can really do a lot of damage. Not much can be done about it, but it's worthy of keeping in mind.
> Now that's a scary though - it's unfortunatly already all too commonly accepted that people can't be trusted to decide what to run on their devices.
Yeah. Not that long ago banning general purpose computation seemed fanciful, but it's not as taboo today (and flipped to being the norm on device classes like the portables).
For sure, but there's a window of opportunity in which an attacker can really do a lot of damage. Not much can be done about it, but it's worthy of keeping in mind.
> Now that's a scary though - it's unfortunatly already all too commonly accepted that people can't be trusted to decide what to run on their devices.
Yeah. Not that long ago banning general purpose computation seemed fanciful, but it's not as taboo today (and flipped to being the norm on device classes like the portables).