alt Hacker News> We are moving to a model where the user is considered the adversary on their own hardware.
That has been the model since day one, since you are using spectrum that, because the end users are not licensed, requires it. Radios in 100% of commercially available phones are locked to prevent user tampering.
You don't get root on your debit card either, despite it running a computer.
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unethical_ban • last Friday at 10:06 PM
You make good points, but your framing makes it sound like this new change is nothing new, when it is and it should be discouraged.
> That has been the model since day one, since you are using spectrum that, because the end users are not licensed, requires it. Radios in 100% of commercially available phones are locked to prevent user tampering.
Why, then, can users be root on PCs that have wifi cards, SDRs or cellular radios?