> The first is that a user has no right to run anyone else's code, if the code owner doesn't want to make it available to them. Consider a bank which has an app. /../ I think the bank has the right to say "your machine is too risky - we don't want our code to run on it."
But should they? Should we also accept Google's browser signing and ban all browsers the bank doesn't like? Am I allowed to accept calls from people they haven't vetted or is it too much of a risk to the bank's bottom line that they might talk me into a scam.
I suppose we should also write off the inevitable privacy and freedom violations in the name of "security".[0] I don't have anything to hide after all.
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Infocalyp...
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