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Apple's mission to make the Mac safer is slowly destroying it
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this post was submitted on 12 Oct 2023
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That title makes me chuckle. He should go set up a fresh install of Windows and see what the default security experience is like. Mac OS makes it smooth and fast, and relatively unobtrusive in comparison.
Sure but it’s no excuse to making things worse
Proper security requires some level of intrusiveness if you want functionality as well. It's not possible to meet varying levels of required tradeoffs for different use cases without asking for informed consent to access restricted information or functionality with some regularity.
Granularity is a good thing. Making users notice privacy violations is a good thing. Windows giving a generic "can this program make changes?" dialogue to every installation whether it's extremely simple or basically a rootkit monitoring every process and memory access is a terrible, extremely insecure approach.
Decades of OS development have shown that it’s better to ask user for permissions than letting software go rampant.
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