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Re:New macOS malware steals info, including a user's entire ... by Groxx on Sunday April 16, 2023 @02:32AM (#35587791)
Their post essentially summarizes "what we currently have is probably not enough" and ends in an implied "maybe we need more [though I would personally rankle at it]". So in some ways they did.

But yes, I agree: they do not actually suggest any new restrictions, and I did not mean to imply that they did. I just meant to head off the obvious rebuttals, and make my stance clear: You cannot have "allow the knowledgeable to do X" and "prevent the un-knowledgeable from doing X" in the presence of social engineering at a technical level, and there is ample evidence that more popups and friction are not an effective solution. So a safe default and reasonably-ergonomic-but-not-accidental-friendly ways around it seems roughly ideal IMO. Apple hits that fairly well: block by default, right-click -> open to bypass individually (arguably accidental-able, but odd enough compared to double-click and there is still a clear warning displayed), or change settings to allow by default.

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