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A comment on Apple Antitrust Probe – Responses to Congress [pdf]. Parent comment

Re:Apple Antitrust Probe – Responses to Congress [pdf] by bla3 on Thursday November 21, 2019 @04:41AM (#21592639)
It hosed macs that had SIP disabled and /var world-writable. Not that that's an excuse, but few machines were affected by this.
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Re:Apple Antitrust Probe – Responses to Congress [pdf] by scarface74 on Thursday November 21, 2019 @05:05AM (#21592755)
The point being that users can’t just trust apps from reputable sources. Even if not being purposefully malicious, third parties get sloppy.
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