> Meta has a long history of not respecting user privacy controls.

Meta's respect is irrelevant, because macOS TCC prevents any and every app, including malware, from accessing your Messages database without Full Disk Access.

> he never granted Muse permissions to read his messages

That's what he said, but I would suggest that one person's memory is a lot more fallible than a longstanding operating system security feature.

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givinguflac an hour ago | parent [-]

Seriously, stop trying to grandstand this thread and being Meta’s lap cat. It’s gross.

How on earth, after literally decades of abusive behavior by meta, are you standing the straw man that maybe and based on your assumption the user is lying??

	▲	lapcat 9 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Please read and respect the HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html I said that Aten is misremembering. That's not the same as lying. We all misremember things. I don't care about or trust Meta. In my blog post about the Muse first run experience, I said, "For testing I used a fresh VM, not signed in to my Apple Account, because of course I don’t trust Meta with any of my data!" https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2026/10/2.html What I do care about is truth and accuracy. My mistrust of Meta is not going to make me distort the truth. Muse cannot bypass macOS TCC, that's a simple truth.