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Originally Posted by OtinG
Apple takes a lot of flack from MS and Android fans, but their proactive hunt for malicious apps should be commended. Amazon and others should do that too, but I doubt they ever will. I'll take the walled garden any day over the "you're on your own" attitude of most other companies.
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And Mussolini kept the trains running on time.
I'll take freedom and the accompanying risks and responsibilities.
Anythewho....
I'm not clear on one element of the skill attack thing.
Forget the homophone thing, I get that that might drive traffic to the malicious skill, but the only real issue is that the malicious skills are there in the first place.
So assuming we accept that even maximum security walled gardens occasionally have breaks, and some malicious skills are going to get through even if Amazon was as diligent as Apple, what's to do?
How can we responsibly manage this risk?
Do we need to just not use any skills from unfamiliar sources? That seems like the equivalent of never going outside for fear of being mugged, or only reading books from BPHs for fear of encountering some really offensive indie dreck.
Do we need to start an independent skills review forum/database?
ApK