For many decades, people have been mistakenly putting diesel fuel into their gasoline cars, yet we never outlawed diesel vehicles. You can only do so much to protect people without destroying their rights to their property.
replythe pump handles are green tho
replySociety moved to having it so diesel fuel pump would not fit into gasoline cars.
replySociety didn't ban doing it, but put up barriers that help the average person from doing something dangerous.
Just like people get robbed, it is as common as that.
replyIt doesn't mean one can't buy nice things because one is afraid of being robbed.
Except a sane society puts rules in place against robbers and then bans such people from society.
replyThere have already been laws against scammers and hackers for a long time.
replyThat seems to happen on phones too
replyIt is much rarer since it needs 0 day to do these at the same level as possible on a pc. The play store scanning apps for malware is an important safety mechanism against this. Further more imposter apps like YouTube but with no ads that are Trojans that steal people's accounts.
replyOr the accessibility permission, or to some degree the access all files ones; but it's also enough for the app to pilfer the data you trust it with.
replyThe Play Store's scanning is very far from perfect, and the amount of crap that's on it, combined with the trust that people have towards it, and apps' unfettered access to internet, makes malicious software easily more common than on PCs.
Even without considering as malicious the enormous data collection that almost everything on the Play Store does, encouraged by Google