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Re:Undocumented Catalina file access change by mherdeg on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @05:38PM (#21830212)
I vividly remember Catalina's permissions model being mocked by Apple on television in a mid-2000s Get A Mac ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxOIebkmrqs

Why the turnaround 10 years later? Is OS X now such a popular desktop OS that it's being attacked in a ways that weren't mainstream back then?

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Re:Undocumented Catalina file access change by sneak on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @06:20PM (#21830508)
That’s certainly part of it. Ransomware is a big issue. Spyware is, too.
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