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 nmgycombinator on Tuesday May 13, 2025 @02:44AM (#43970161)

I do agree that uninstallation can be hard on macOS. I think Apple just envisions a future where every app is self-contained and putting the app in the trash really does remove everything because it was all in there.

Maybe that's not realistic, though.

I still think there's something to be said about an installation/uninstallation process that relies purely on moving files around, no custom script execution.

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Re:Can You Really Trust That Permission Pop-Up on macOS? (CV... by Kwpolska on Tuesday May 13, 2025 @04:45PM (#43977513)

The "drag it to Applications, move to Trash to remove" flow was invented decades ago, possibly even back in NeXTStep [0]. Application bundles are not meant to be writeable, user data cannot be written there. If Apple envisions a future change, they’re really terrible in implementing it.

[0] https://www.nextcomputers.org/files/manuals/nd/Concepts/Inst...

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Re:Can You Really Trust That Permission Pop-Up on macOS? (CV... by xp84 on Friday May 16, 2025 @03:15PM (#44008883)

I suspect Apple has little incentive to fix it since if an app stores a bunch of data in ~/Library/Application Support and then you Trash the app, then your 256GB SSD (still standard even on a 'professional' laptop, in 2025) is that much more filled, eventually prompting you to curse yourself for not spending $400 in nearly-pure-profit to upgrade that to 1TB.

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