actionjbone

It means at least one Google engineer is full of shit.

Wut

Can you really call it a bombshell when they're doing it out in the open? And everybody can see they are doing it? And they are in no way trying to hide it or justify their actions?

You don't need to argue. You just need to accept that every time you do that you put your life, and the lives of the people around you, in danger. And that's simply a fact.

I have to laugh at the guide calling itself "complete."

Yes, it's got a lot of useful info. Yes, someone reading it can learn a lot about what to do with older computers and what to expect from distros.

But there is so much more that the guide doesn't cover, haha

Yeah, that's exactly it. It doesn't seem bad. It just seems out of place based on the price point and clientele.

It is when they work in intelligence and someone can find out and kidnap or kill their family to threaten them.

Yeah, but normally the MDM is used to prevent security breaches. Not create them.

You're missing the point. This app is written by outside, for-profit companies who don't care about data security. And the app is so full of security holes that it means work email and work chat may be skimmed by people outside the organization.

This isn't a case of "don't use your work phone for personal stuff."

This is a case of e.g. "foreign criminal organizations can potentially steal American Social Security databases."

The problem is that it's at the office in the first place.

It creates a massive hole in IT security and allows attack vectors to get into government networks and files.

It's like driving your brand new car into a busy part of town, leaving the keys in the ignition, leaving the door open, and stepping away for hours. And then doing it again the next day, and the day after that, even after each car has been stolen.

I might consider agreeing with you, except the app is full of third-party spyware and for-profit tracking software that's operated by foreign companies.

I'm a creative. I've used InDesign since version 1.0. I've built my career with Adobe tools.

Adobe Creative Cloud peaked around ten years ago. Since then, it's totally jumped the shark. I'm not even talking about the company, just the software and its features.

When I open InDesign, Photoshop, or Illustrator I'm trying to work. It's software I've used for, in some cases, 25 years. My point is, I know it inside and out.

The past few years, every new "feature" gets in the way of my work. Adobe has been changing things that already worked very well, or has added extra steps to do something that used to be easy.

Even worse, Adobe has started to fill its software with notifications that can not be disabled. Invasive blue dots. Invasive blue buttons. Invasive blue overlays that stay visible on the screen even when the software is minimized. Rich tool tips that aren't disabled by the option to disable rich tool tips.

Adobe has lost me as a devotee. It's been taken over by venture capital. The company only cares about adoption of new features.

Now, I use it out habit. Because my workplace provides it. Because it's what folks on my team are used to... but because they've come to the ecosystem so late, they only know a fraction of its capabilities.

If Adobe faces demise, I will mourn what if once was. But not what it has become.