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Re:Can You Really Trust That Permission Pop-Up on macOS? (CV... by Klonoar on Tuesday May 13, 2025 @02:51AM (#43970205)
Apple themselves have a quirk in some cases where apps that aren’t in an Applications folder get mounted as read-only.

Granted I haven’t seen the bug in awhile, but I also never saw acknowledgement of it being fixed so…

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Re:Can You Really Trust That Permission Pop-Up on macOS? (CV... by mike_hearn on Tuesday May 13, 2025 @06:11AM (#43971362)
That's not a bug, it's a security feature (hack?) called translocation. It happens if you run an app that was downloaded without moving it first using the Finder.
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Re:Can You Really Trust That Permission Pop-Up on macOS? (CV... by Klonoar on Tuesday May 13, 2025 @09:40AM (#43972872)
I know what the feature is called.

I would not consider something so confusing to the end user to be a security feature. This is a bug, or you could use the label "broken".

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