Those things were “added later” to create iOS and Android, they aren’t from scratch systems. iOS especially shares a large portion of its code base with macOS (much of which is open source).
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SecuMiKern@sh.itjust.works 2 months agoWhile that’s true for mitigations, one system can be more secure than another by design
Things like an OS that’s designed with sandboxing, more clean codebase that’s auditable, permissions, … in mind is more secure than an OS that later adds them as an afterthought
MacOS and Windows’s security are objectively better than linux’s, the problem is they are not open source
Bitrot@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
csm10495@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
The idea of a clean code base only existed for the original writers… most of the time.
echo64@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I think we have different definitions of security. Your definition may be more theoretically secure, in your mind, for the novel and interesting solutions. My definition is about a hardened, time-tested solution.