Re:Ask HN: Is Apple really phoning home every time I start a...
by __d on Friday June 11, 2021 @09:38PM
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Yeah.
For me, I accept that there's a tradeoff between being able to revoke the signed status of an application, and doing a certificate check at launch time.
And you're already trusting Apple with a bunch of stuff, so one more thing isn't that much worse.
But yeah, it's still creepy, and ripe for abuse.
I wonder why this didn't blow up more, it sounds like such a privacy nightmare.