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Re:Goodbye Mac App Store by danieldk on Saturday March 11, 2017 @01:48AM (#13844560)
Yes, using Activity Monitor, as a sibling mentioned. I have done this regularly over the years and my conclusion is that virtually no app distributed outside the App Store does this. Even when they have an App Store counterpart (example: 1Password).

Hence, I have decided to always purchase the App Store version of an application when available and to think twice if there is no App Store version. I do not want to give a random developer full access to my filesystem.

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Re:Goodbye Mac App Store by oneeyedpigeon on Saturday March 11, 2017 @05:21AM (#13844992)
> I do not want to give a random developer full access to my filesystem.

Surely an app can only do that if it requests escalated privileges. By default, I would expect it to have the same filesystem permissions as the user that launches it.

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Re:Goodbye Mac App Store by danieldk on Saturday March 11, 2017 @07:45AM (#13845272)
The default permissions of the (typical Mac home) user are: read access to most of the filesystem, write access to the full home directory, /Applications, and some other locations.
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Re:Goodbye Mac App Store by oneeyedpigeon on Saturday March 11, 2017 @08:12AM (#13845314)
So that's not "full access to my filesystem" by any means. Maybe there could be a bit more nuance, but I don't think this is an unsolvable problem.
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