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Re:Mechanism many macOS security tools used to check signatu... by augbog on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @03:38PM (#17306273)
They might have done it because existing people weren't doing it and it would have introduced a breaking change potentially.

Not making an excuse for them though. They should have done that.

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Re:Mechanism many macOS security tools used to check signatu... by saghm on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @03:50PM (#17306355)
Preventing users from doing something insecure sounds like a perfect reason to make a breaking change.
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