Re:Every Mac comes with an (undocumented) family member clas...
by hparadiz on Saturday November 07, 2026 @08:35PM
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This drives me crazy. I'm slowly working on isolating every application into it's own sandbox but the fact that this wasn't built into the kernel drives me up the wall.
Re:Every Mac comes with an (undocumented) family member clas...
by coldtea on Saturday November 07, 2026 @09:05PM
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>Every piece of data on your computer that is owned by your user is available to any other app you run as your user.
That not being the case is the whole purpose of the per-app sandboxes which macOS has along with TCC. We're not discussing plain Unix permissions alone.
Re:Every Mac comes with an (undocumented) family member clas...
by tpmoney on Saturday November 07, 2026 @11:14PM
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Ok, and the data is in a location that you need to grant full disk access to an application in order to access it. So what is the complaint here? Is it that if you run an application and give it access to the data that it has access to the data?
It's an eternal balancing act because every time Apple implements some new restriction in their OS that prevents apps from doing whatever they want, whenever they want, people get mad at them. But without those restrictions, the ever increasing amount of personal data that is stored on your computer is exposed to the ever increasing number of data slurping applications that you run.