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anc84 on Dec 20, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Excessive load on NTP servers

As a user, I'd rather you build your code and sign it for me. Enabling a third-party to alter your programs taking away the trust I would have in you.

tekromancr on Dec 20, 2016 [–]

But you are already trusting Apple to manufacture your device and the operating system the app runs on top of.

nitrogen on Dec 20, 2016 | [–]

Hypothetically, signing power could be useful if an organization wanted to attribute malicious code to somebody else.

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