> What are the mechanisms that assure safety for users?
What are the mechanisms that assure safety for users of iOS? I understand that it's had a good track record so far, but the proprietary closed nature doesn't inherently inspire trust. Surely a decentralised FOSS model done right could be secure for lawyers &c.
As the old saying goes, "if you could have invented a secure open source desktop chat app, you would have developed a secure open source desktop chat app."
In practice, empirict results win over theoretically optimal designs.
I think that’s unfair; the Ghost.io post from a day or so ago is a good reminder of just how much harder it is to do things when you have to make them work in a decentralized fashion. Decentralization makes everything harder.
What are the mechanisms that assure safety for users of iOS? I understand that it's had a good track record so far, but the proprietary closed nature doesn't inherently inspire trust. Surely a decentralised FOSS model done right could be secure for lawyers &c.