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dee_dee said:

CheeseFreeze said:

AppleZulu said:

So this is where we see letting third-party vendors have that level of access to the OS in order to provide security becomes a vulnerability in itself. 

Nonsense. Good standards don’t let third parties to operate “on an OS level” since that access is not needed to begin with. In case of Apple and Microsoft they provide APIs and frameworks that other vendors can use. They stay within these boundaries (or there wouldn’t be a standard).

Also, you could argue the very opposite. Letting a few tech giants in control over protocols used world-wide means that when things go bad, everything goes bad. 

You might not understand how antivirus work, but kernel access is needed for them to function.