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@david_chisnall @neil And/or effectively communicating to them in terms the politicians understand how it will benefit their constituents.

We are generally terrible at doing this.

@david_chisnall @neil There's a balance to be struck here. Unfortunately, this is something I'd argue that won't happen without regulation. But it is also super critical that the open source community learns how to effectively talk to politicians to ensure that our views are taken into account. This means we need to effectively show and communicate the harms that allowing the unlimited locking of systems presents to users, especially, say, their more vulnerable constituents.

@david_chisnall @neil I think is may also allow them to restrict their app from being installed on systems that are on older versions of the OS which aren't going to be getting security updates, etc.

Please don't get me wrong, I much prefer running systems where I retain control to install and use things as I wish. Though I'm also under no illusion that rights holders and those that are regulated to ensure a level of safety for their users aren't going to be willing to support such systems.

@david_chisnall @neil I get your point, but feel you're very much down playing the effort it takes to find an exploit on a properly updated device.

Regardless of whether the systems provide perfect levels of security or not, arguably blocking the installation of their app on rooted devices limits their exposure to systems that can perform operations they wish to block