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  • It’s fair to be concerned that what’s happened to televisions is gonna spread to other products, but I think standard appliances are distinct in a way that makes them safe. Standard appliances are built on tech that hasn’t changed jn 50-60 years, and isn’t going to. As has been mentioned, you could indeed build a dishwasher in your garage, or a refridgerator, or a dryer, etc. Are they gonna measure up to modern energy efficiency standard without a lot of research and effort, no, but the tech is all simple-enough and well-understood-enough that if the market stops filling the “dumb appliance” sector, the barrier to entry for someone new to fill it is very low. It’s also exactly the kind of tech that a community of online DIY nerds could legitimately compete with, powered by 3D printers, open-source software, and hobbyist electronics.














  • So, it’s a way for applications to make themselves more hardened against exploitation? Was really confused on first reading the title, but that makes some sense. Applications declare what permissions they need, up-front, so any exploits during normal operation can only operate under that umbrella. Unless the startup processes of the application itself are exploited.





  • DDoS stands for Distributed Denial of Service.

    Denial of Service is the concept of overwhelming a system (digital/computer or otherwise) with bogus usage, to the point that legitimate users can no longer access it. Imagine submitting thousands of FOIA requests to your local city government. Legally, they have to respond to them, even if it’s to reject them as bogus. So, if anyone else submits one, it’s just gonna get buried in the pile. Maybe they get to it, eventually, or maybe it actually just gets lost, or even accidentally thrown out when they decide to just throw away all the bogus ones.

    Now, if you were to actuallly do this, your city government would probably just start binning all your requests, immediately, when they realize you’re not submitting them in good faith. Hell, maybe they even get you banned from the building, for harassment. That’s where “Distributed” comes into play. To combat this, what you’d do is get a whole bunch of your friends (you’ve got thousands of friends willing to waste time dealing with the government, right?) to each submit just one or two applications. They can no longer just throw them out based on the name of the submitter, they have to again spend more time inspecting each one, to see if it’s legit, and then process it, if it is. MUCH tougher to defend against.