Sandboxed Mac apps can record screen any time without you knowing

Re:Sandboxed Mac apps can record screen any time without you... by veidr on Sunday February 11, 2018 @05:43AM (#16352131)

Yep, that's what I meant: Apple's stance is, We can't let veidr override sandbox limitations, because then his dad might get pwned.

That's true, as far as it goes. My view is, maybe you make the dialog to do that scary enough; maybe you have to go enable some security setting to even make the dialog possible; maybe, even so, you have to accept that some users like my dad will get fooled and exploited.

OTOH, it's already a slippery slope; even more secure would be to completely prohibit all third-party software entirely.

I think they are drawing the lines wrong.

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Re:Sandboxed Mac apps can record screen any time without you... by digi_owl on Sunday February 11, 2018 @12:41PM (#16353670)

History shows that if the dialog shows up often enough people will simply hit accept/ok/whatever without reading what it is about.

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Re:Sandboxed Mac apps can record screen any time without you... by ScottBurson on Monday February 12, 2018 @02:55AM (#16357213)

> maybe you have to go enable some security setting to even make the dialog possible

This sounds like you're on the right track. Make it a shell command you have to execute with SIP disabled.

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