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> The primary outcome appears to be increased profit margins rather than societal advancement. While previous technological revolutions created new industries and democratized acce…

Edit made: Ventura and Sonoma will remain vulnerable. Apple made the decision to only patch this in Sequoia.

I mean, I don't know how there would be? Unless they were scanning the text of every pop-up for words convincing the user to enter their computer password. There would be no way to…

I agree with you. However, in this case, I was abusing a legitimate OS prompt (not just making my own), so I don't know if a security image would be a barrier there. It would defin…

That's a fair point. But did Mac have the same issue as Windows where file extensions were not shown by default? That feels like it would have been the core issue.

I mean, as others have mentioned, actually true capabilities would be nice. But as long as we're going to have a database, it would have to end up in user space or in the kernel. A…

Ooh! Thanks for the links!

I think Apple uses an L4 variant for their SEP co-processor, though I'm not sure if it's that specific one. Sounds like another OS I'll probably have to do a deep dive into at some…

Damn, that really puts things into perspective. Granted, attached modals presuppose there's a window to attach to. But I think that would probably be true 9 times out of 10.

I do agree that uninstallation can be hard on macOS. I think Apple just envisions a future where every app is self-contained and putting the app in the trash really does remove eve…

I will definitely admit, it can be a bit of a pain point that Apple sometimes takes a lot of time to determine a bounty. I'm just waiting patiently now to see what they say. I appr…

I think their "Hall of Fame" (or at least whatever people colloquially refer to as that) is their credits for people who found bugs in their web servers, so I don't think that coun…

Correction (longer explanation elsewhere): only 15.5. Apple didn't patch it in the other two releases.

Yeah, to be perfectly honest, I understand. I think TCC is meant to be the primary consent system, but there are others (such as the Authorization system, and the Service Managemen…

As someone who dove deep into keychain items for a previous write-up, I believe you are misunderstanding this situation. As far as I understand it, many keychain items can be store…

That's honestly a pretty smart move.

Hijacking this current top comment to let everyone know there is an important update to this article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43969087

Oh nice! I'll take a look at these.

An important correction, so hopefully this bubbles to the top (this will be appearing on the post as well): A previous version of this article mentioned below that this CVE was pat…

Thank you for your kind words. To respond: 1. I'm not a "he", I would prefer "they". 2. As I mentioned in another comment, I have not received word back yet on any reward.

As someone who's looked into the internals of macOS for a bit now, this is all incredibly fascinating. However, I am curious: do you think capabilities could be implemented like th…