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Apple vs the Law

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377 points tempodox | 1 comments | 11 Jul 25 06:49 UTC | HN request time: 0.211s | source
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grishka ◴[11 Jul 25 07:28 UTC] No.44529279[source]▶
> "...unfortunately, it's impossible to do all the complex engineering to comply with the Commission's current interpretation of the DMA..."

There's nothing complex and impossible about removing some "if" statements responsible for code signature enforcement.

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1. ethan_smith ◴[11 Jul 25 12:16 UTC] No.44531269[source]▶
While signature verification could be disabled with a few code changes, the real challenge is maintaining security boundaries when opening up previously controlled interfaces - it requires rebuilding permission models, API stability guarantees, and sandboxing mechanisms that were designed with closed-system assumptions.