...and absolutely horrible for freedom. It used to be the case, and still widely accepted for a lot of other products, that physical ownership actually meant something beyond just being a consumer. Now companies are turning the security against users, lest they also be attackers. From the point of view of the DRM-advocating media corporations, the user is an attacker. Locking down the platform to allow only "trusted" (not by you, but by them!) code only benefits when their goals align with yours; you may agree with them on not wanting things like ransomware, but not on things like them not allowing you to share a file between two apps or even run code you wrote yourself.
It's scarier than any security attack to see what used to be an open and free platform turned into a walled garden of corporate control and obedience.
...and absolutely horrible for freedom. It used to be the case, and still widely accepted for a lot of other products, that physical ownership actually meant something beyond just being a consumer. Now companies are turning the security against users, lest they also be attackers. From the point of view of the DRM-advocating media corporations, the user is an attacker. Locking down the platform to allow only "trusted" (not by you, but by them!) code only benefits when their goals align with yours; you may agree with them on not wanting things like ransomware, but not on things like them not allowing you to share a file between two apps or even run code you wrote yourself.
It's scarier than any security attack to see what used to be an open and free platform turned into a walled garden of corporate control and obedience.
(Insert famous Benjamin Franklin quote.)