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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.

I'm a macOS software developer. That's the reason for my interest in this story, the technical aspects of it.