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vlovich123today at 2:40 PM1 replyview on HN

The guard rails aren’t about blocking professional malware authors. It’s about enabling a significantly larger population that isn’t as talented in acquiring those capabilities. Very different threat model and just because it’s not effective in one area doesn’t mean there isn’t value in making it more difficult for random Joe Schmoe in building an atomic bomb even if a kid before had done so successfully and turned his garage into a radiation danger site


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varispeedtoday at 2:52 PM

In other words security by obscurity.

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