> That's what they always say --- so how about solving that problem first, before thrusting ourselves head-first into advocating for full authoritarianism?
Expecting more secure applications is "advocating for full authoritarianism"? If anything, security vulnerabilities place individuals at far greater risk to authoritarianism since it exposes them to the people who have guns and can throw them in prison.
And software written in memory-safe languages is very very far from "perfectly secure". It just closes a very common class of vulnerability.
If you really want, you can use FLOSS for everything. Your use case of "I really want the ability to change any piece of code running on my device" is supported. Not well, since few people actually want this, but it is supported.
Expecting more secure applications is "advocating for full authoritarianism"? If anything, security vulnerabilities place individuals at far greater risk to authoritarianism since it exposes them to the people who have guns and can throw them in prison.
And software written in memory-safe languages is very very far from "perfectly secure". It just closes a very common class of vulnerability.
If you really want, you can use FLOSS for everything. Your use case of "I really want the ability to change any piece of code running on my device" is supported. Not well, since few people actually want this, but it is supported.