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blog! “The limits of General Purpose Computation”
Should my bank be able to block me from using their Android app, just because my phone is rooted? I'm reluctantly coming to the conclusion that... yeah, it's fair that they get to decide their own risk tolerance. Sage of the Internet, and general Sooth Sayer, Cory Doctorow once gave an impassioned…
Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/05/the-limits-of-general-purpose-computation/
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@Edent it’s a very similar problem with VAC secure games. VAC actually looks to see if you have some known cheating tools running and bans you if you do(among a ton of other heuristics). You already mentioned DRM and banking.
At the end of the day the software authors need to be able to decide what branch of their software to run, and they need some sensing of your system. However, in case of DRM - the authors of the heuristics tend to err a lot on the safe side, as a result some of the legal/ethical things a user may want to do aren’t supported at which point some people go the pirate route. It seems we still didn’t manage to teach Hollywood that usability, not fear is a way to reduce piracy… hopefully banks will find a middle ground or we’re going to have [ovdc]BankOfAmerica_noroot.patched.arm64.apk.torrent