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▲ GeekyBear 9 hours ago

From Apple's statement, there doesn't seem to be any plan to remove the full disk access permission.

They want unsophisticated users to understand that they would be granting unlimited access to all of their personal data if they grant software that permission.

> We are committed to ensuring users clearly understand these risks before granting such access, so they can make informed decisions about their own data and privacy.

▲andreareina 8 hours ago | parent [-]

... for now. Anytime I download an unsigned binary I need to go through this song and dance of figuring out again what command I need to run to strip the quarantine tag because none of the UIs that are supposed to allow me to trust this binary work.

▲GeekyBear 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The company making laptops locked to an app store is Google.

Microsoft attempted to lock Windows to their app store twice, with both Windows RT and Windows S, but the market rejected both of those attempts.

Apple hasn't done that, despite claims that it's coming any day now for at least a decade.

▲fragmede 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

That would be

     xattr -d com.apple.quarantine /path/to/file
because https://xkcd.com/979/