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Good thing they are still not evil. Seriously, this is a very powerful way to run software, but what if they, or some other company who emulated this idea, took that great power we have granted them and used it for evil? They could suddenly 0wn millions of computers.


Or if a company, maybe even Google, gets hacked and their distribution channels are used to send out poisoned software? That would be bad.


I could see Google being taken by force (read guns) and millions of computers sent the launch codes.

Joshua


And what if a competitor like Microsoft decided to do the same thing? They could just as easily release an update with undocumented features or how about the likes of secret updates? http://www.infoworld.com/t/platforms/microsoft-secret-update...




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