Have you noticed that a parent's default way to protect a child's security w/ tech (lock the device, tightly restrict what they can do, spy on everything) is exactly the same approach most vendors use to protect an adult customer's security?
It's also because tight control w/ trust rooted in the vendor is "easy mode" for lazy security engineers. It's much harder to design security measures that treat end users like adults.
@kyle Sounds like a quote directly from Apple's playbook. Only they have learned that if you just use a bunch of pretty sounding words they can sell you it all as a good thing.
The motivation for each is entirely different.
Vendors are not acting in the best interests of their customers, and couldn't give a fuck beyond their need to maintain and increase revenue.
Parents, on the other hand, believe they are doing what's best for the child.
Trying to draw this parallel is effectively absolving vendors for being cynically exploitative and manipulative cunts.
@kyle Most adult users really behave like children, and I think most of them really want them vendor to protect them this way
@kyle yes. It's removing the medium of thought from reactions. It won't work on thinking children/consumers, but such parenting may produce such consumers.
It's because most vendors think of customers as children that must be protected from themselves by removing as much agency and control as possible. This also makes customers completely dependent on them.