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Re:Signing apps for Mountain Lion without Xcode by Sanddancer on Sunday November 25, 2012 @01:50PM (#4828854)
/I/ should be the gatekeeper on /my/ device. Apple's all or nothing approach means that for hobbyist usage, or internal app distribution, etc, you still have to pay that $99/year, even if it's not going into the regular ecosystem.
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Re:Signing apps for Mountain Lion without Xcode by Flow on Sunday November 25, 2012 @02:04PM (#4828900)
You know /YOU/ can turn it off on /YOUR/ device, right?
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Re:Signing apps for Mountain Lion without Xcode by Sanddancer on Sunday November 25, 2012 @02:26PM (#4828966)
Yes, I know it can be turned off. However, there's no way to import 3rd party roots into gatekeeper. That's what I meant by all or nothing.
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Re:Signing apps for Mountain Lion without Xcode by Flow on Monday November 26, 2012 @12:14PM (#4832830)
That's true and probably by design. ;)

A workaround could perhaps be to use anti-virus software, at least Symantec has reputation based whitelisting.

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