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Re:New Mac ransomware spreading through piracy by bobbylarrybobby on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @07:28PM (#23696011)
Does apple not throw up a permission dialog whenever an app tries to access just about any part of your filesystem? Like this:

https://nektony.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/grant-acces-d...

I could be wrong, maybe it's only for certain kinds of apps.

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Re:New Mac ransomware spreading through piracy by comex on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @12:49AM (#23697839)
That’s for all apps, but only for specific parts of the filesystem, so there’s still plenty of room for apps to cause havoc by messing with everything else.

This is separate from the older sandboxing feature that’s designed to fully isolate apps from the rest of the system, which is mandatory for Mac App Store apps but opt-in for other apps.

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Re:New Mac ransomware spreading through piracy by saagarjha on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @04:32AM (#23699233)
Mandatory for new Mac App Store apps
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