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John Gruber

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The Vergecast
AirPods, Touch Bars, and the rest of Tim Cook's legacy

And Rafi Krikorian, who's the CTO at Mozilla wrote a great piece, I think for the New York Times, basically arguing that the real problem here is with open source software.

The Vergecast
AirPods, Touch Bars, and the rest of Tim Cook's legacy

All of the, everything runs on open source software.

The Vergecast
AirPods, Touch Bars, and the rest of Tim Cook's legacy

People don't realize this, but like every video you watch,

The Vergecast
AirPods, Touch Bars, and the rest of Tim Cook's legacy

is based on some kind of open source system for showing video.

The Vergecast
AirPods, Touch Bars, and the rest of Tim Cook's legacy

And all of those things are generally maintained by a person or a few people or an organization without anywhere near the resources of a giant tech company.

The Vergecast
AirPods, Touch Bars, and the rest of Tim Cook's legacy

And

The Vergecast
AirPods, Touch Bars, and the rest of Tim Cook's legacy

Ravi's point was essentially that that is where we need to go focus our energy.

The Vergecast
AirPods, Touch Bars, and the rest of Tim Cook's legacy

That actually we have these infrastructural risks that are not just a thing that you have to patch in your own code, but are things that could break the internet.

The Vergecast
AirPods, Touch Bars, and the rest of Tim Cook's legacy

And knowing that these things are, if not all the way at the point of we've dissolved cybersecurity forever, but are sort of marching towards getting better at cracking these codes, that now is the time to start fixing it.

The Vergecast
AirPods, Touch Bars, and the rest of Tim Cook's legacy

So don't take this as the world has ended.

The Vergecast
AirPods, Touch Bars, and the rest of Tim Cook's legacy

but also don't take it as this is nothing, right?

The Vergecast
AirPods, Touch Bars, and the rest of Tim Cook's legacy

His point was like, we have to live somewhere in between that and start to make moves on this thing we are clearly making progress towards that might someday be dangerous in the future.

The Vergecast
AirPods, Touch Bars, and the rest of Tim Cook's legacy

And that's way less sexy than our model is too dangerous to release, but I think it's probably closer to what's actually going on.

The Vergecast
AirPods, Touch Bars, and the rest of Tim Cook's legacy

Oh, God.

The Vergecast
AirPods, Touch Bars, and the rest of Tim Cook's legacy

Wait, what?

The Vergecast
AirPods, Touch Bars, and the rest of Tim Cook's legacy

Okay, so I'm looking at the interior of a car.

The Vergecast
AirPods, Touch Bars, and the rest of Tim Cook's legacy

It's a BMW.

The Vergecast
AirPods, Touch Bars, and the rest of Tim Cook's legacy

We have some white seats with some weird texture on it.

The Vergecast
AirPods, Touch Bars, and the rest of Tim Cook's legacy

And we have a bunch of rhombus-shaped screens.

The Vergecast
AirPods, Touch Bars, and the rest of Tim Cook's legacy

that don't look like they're in the car at all.