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>The future in personal computing I think lies squarely in an automatically updated sandboxed environment

- When the future moves to sandboxed environments, (financial) risk will move there too and attacks will target that future in the sandbox, and attacks will develop with technologies allowed within that sandbox. Disallowing anything but port 80/443, appeared to be a secure environment 10yrs ago, and now javascript, cookies, and the web sites incur many more diverse types of attacks than earlier, within what was allowd.

- A managed, self updated environment, or a walled garden, already gives the authority a bigger power on every activity and that's often a bigger cut (no botnet can dream of 30% of all transactions...) and a draconian power than sporadic illegal attacks to some business. And this is a bigger risk overall, to diverse businesses, than this poor botnet poses.

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