Can You Really Trust That Permission Pop-Up on macOS? (CVE-2025-31250)

Re:Can You Really Trust That Permission Pop-Up on macOS? (CV... by makeitdouble on Monday May 12, 2025 @06:27PM (#43968037)

> Slack is just a messaging application.

I kinda like this angle. While Slack makes an effort to work basically everywhere with low effort, I wonder what would follow if it wasn't the case.

For instance if for some stupid legal reason Slack was banned from macos, how many people would just switch to another OS ? I'd bet it would be a non trivial amount of users at this point.

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Re:Can You Really Trust That Permission Pop-Up on macOS? (CV... by dylan604 on Monday May 12, 2025 @06:33PM (#43968073)

or you know, just use the web app

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Re:Can You Really Trust That Permission Pop-Up on macOS? (CV... by makeitdouble on Monday May 12, 2025 @06:41PM (#43968143)

If it was a legal ban I'd assume Apple would go pretty far to make it happen, app or not.

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Re:Can You Really Trust That Permission Pop-Up on macOS? (CV... by JadeNB on Monday May 12, 2025 @09:50PM (#43969053)

> I kinda like this angle. While Slack makes an effort to work basically everywhere with low effort, I wonder what would follow if it wasn't the case.

This idea of respecting user preference is not the way, though. For example, back when Skype existed, you couldn't remove its icon from the macOS menu bar, because (1) Microsoft didn't believe you had the right to choose to remove that item, and (2) macOS believes an app developer should have more control over what goes in my menu bar than I do.

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