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[–] acheron2012 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

I’m conflicted on this. On one hand it smacks of totalitarianism.

But there are also very valid reasons for it.

I’d like the user to continue to be able to authorize individual exceptions. But realistically the average Linux programmer is really to stupid to do that responsibly. So it isn’t a practical solution.

And for the average user the benefit of not having to spend $50-70 a year for antivirus software that then permanently sucks up 25% of your CPU cycles does have real value.

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[–] Roody15 [S] 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Agree. It may be workable as long as Apple lets you bypass this restriction for IT and advanced users. If they don’t and force full on iOS like App Store than this would be a major problem. IMO

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[–] libman ago 

But there are also very valid reasons for it.

We need decentralized checksum databases of audited code and compiled binary packages. Not more power to the government and its corporate whores like Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, etc.