Because paying a few grand a year for a certificate somehow makes your software more trustworthy
The original Twitter checkmark
Well it at least is an obstacle. Broke hackers won't get it or will have to work harder to get around it.
That's the intention. In reality lots of genuine devs can't afford it, so people get accustomed to just ignore the whole thing.
Even more lols when you are gigabyte and your private key leaks. Also when you are gigabyte and your signed driver is used to privilege escalate malware.
And that’s why certificates can be revoked, that’s the whole point, trust. It only costs a few hundred a year per Microsoft’s documentation and approved vendors so it doesn’t seem that much of an ask. At the very least you can look up the developer yourself, harder to do if the package has no identity associated with it
And you can still bypass it if you put your software in a .zip
Gigabyte has entered the chat.
Linux: OK
User: Oh great, I downloaded a virus
Linux: Lol. You should have read the 2000-line python script on github before running it.
Actually there's extensive documentation on the arch wiki regarding this specific line of code burried 1673 lines deep.
I suggest you read the documentation before you ask irrelevant and, might I add, embarrassing questions.
It is your fault always.
I wrote some open source software and looked into how to make that not happen. It’s not easy on Microsoft, and on Apple it costs more than a $100/year!
you have to pay to have your stuff put on the app store??
Yes, on both platforms.
Not only that; You have to pay for updates too. Supposedly it’s because Apple takes time to verify that the app is legit and not going to do nefarious things. So they don’t want a bad actor to get a legit app on the store, then later push an update that infects everyone with a virus.
But apparently a company did a study and realized that app testing rarely made it past the main page, with testers spending ~15-20 seconds per app. They’d basically open it and if it looked like it did what it said, they didn’t bother digging any deeper.
Why do you think they set those up? To not make money?
Yeah we are an open source org and simply don't sign the executables because of this bullshit
This will be outdated soon.
They basically admitted at a security conference (I think) that part of the roadmap for Windows 11 is to actually prevent Windows from running unsigned apps period, and you better believe getting past that will require an Enterprise license.
I can navigate Windows well enough for my job, but I'd never choose it for personal use. I'm no Linux expert, but I haven't yet been faced with a problem I couldn't solve.
I'm the exact opposite! Use Windows for personal use, and use Linux for my VMs/Servers/Docker.
I was taught to use Ubuntu Linux by a middle aged engineer in another field who demanded "the brown operating system" on his computer over a decade ago, so yes, I agree, day to day Linux hasn't been hard for over a decade.
Mac os when u don't pay 99$ a year to apple to sign the app
Mac does it now too. But they do it because they are anti-competitive and want to make you use the Mac app Store. They need to be broken up.
No.
It's a security feature. Right click, select open, affirm that you meant to run the thing, then it works. This needs to be done once for that app.
You can disable this behavior too.
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Let's make it clear. The only virus on a PC is its owner. It never emerges on itself
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iOS watching this...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gatekeeper_(macOS)
They're not new to this
Actually this is a good practice. If you don't know where the program is or if the source is not open, you shouldn't install blindly.
It's a good habit to avoid installing software blindly, especially if you don't know its source or if the program isn't open-source. diploma
