On: Normalize Identifying Corporate Devices in Your Software

[stogot]

I heard folks here used MDM to give themselves more control over Apple security features that they otherwise don’t. This code example and scenario penalizes them by side effect

[arccy → stogot]

much like https://sso.tax/ , if you need enterprisey features... someone thinks you can pay for it.

[TZubiri → stogot]

That's fine, there's no enforcement suggested though, maybe they get a popup asking about licenses, not necessarily a brick.

[yjftsjthsd-h → TZubiri]

If it gets normalized for software to notice when there's MDM in play, do you really think it won't be treated as a strong signal and used to break things?

[TZubiri → yjftsjthsd-h]

Curb your slippery slope buddy. I think it's more productive to speak about concrete news presented to us instead of the hypothetical consequences it might have, real or imagined.

[yjftsjthsd-h → TZubiri]

And that's how we get an industry full of entirely predictable consequences.

[TZubiri → yjftsjthsd-h]

Or it's the plot of minority report

[kotaKat → stogot]

This happens in a lot of software in the Windows world, too. As soon as you run it on a non-Home SKU you’re suddenly The Enterprise, even as a home-gamer.

[bitwize → kotaKat]

Windows is gating a lot of basic configuration shit behind enterprise configs like Group Policies now, specifically so that the people slumming it on Home get all the ads, spyware, mandatory updates, stealthily enabled AI features, etc.

[dragonwriter → kotaKat]

I’ve used Pro (or Ultimate under Win 7) instead of Home for my personal devices since sometime in the XP era and literally never experienced this with anything.

[Dylan16807 → dragonwriter]

I've never had a problem with Pro either.

I ran actual server windows for a while, and one single program refused that (Backblaze).