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Re:Can You Really Trust That Permission Pop-Up on macOS? (CV... by trollbridge on Monday May 12, 2025 @06:27PM (#43968035)
I mean, a website could display a crafty popup-appearing box and try to get you to type in your username and password. Not really sure how you can prevent that.

Vista used the “the background dims quite a bit” to try to deal with that.

Re:Can You Really Trust That Permission Pop-Up on macOS? (CV... by nmgycombinator on Monday May 12, 2025 @06:34PM (#43968086)
Yeah. I think the key thing in my vulnerability is that it abused a legitimate OS prompt and had the consequences of that prompt be applied to something separate from what the prompt text itself said it would.
Re:Can You Really Trust That Permission Pop-Up on macOS? (CV... by EGreg on Monday May 12, 2025 @06:37PM (#43968113)
I just told you how… it would show your special icon or phrase inside so you’d confirm it before you typed anything.

The phrase would be managed through a system screen, like a login screen

Re:Can You Really Trust That Permission Pop-Up on macOS? (CV... by cyral on Monday May 12, 2025 @08:00PM (#43968569)
Problem is most users will not care or understand it. Someone will spoof the dialog without the special icon or phrase and users would still enter the password.
Re:Can You Really Trust That Permission Pop-Up on macOS? (CV... by trollbridge on Tuesday May 13, 2025 @09:29AM (#43972751)
Banks did this years ago, but a few surveys showed nobody actually checked for their key phrase or image.