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Yes, but then you quit the app. How is it going to read that folder again?
It simply reads it. That is the whole point of explicit permission.
Is that not what happened here?
You can't trust macOS Privacy and Security settings
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Re: You can't trust macOS Privacy and Security settings
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based on my experience, I suspect the latter similar, user-hostile behaviors I have found include: - wifi network passwords are persisted through a system wipe and reinstall in recovery mode - a phone home is required by an activation step during installation - bluetooth is always re-enabled after an upgrade
> bluetooth is always re-enabled after an upgrade Not user-hostile in the least. This is to ensure that the Mac can find Magic input devices.
Is this sarcasm? What do people who don't want bluetooth on startup under any circumstances do?
Re: You can't trust macOS Privacy and Security settings
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Why crack it when you have silicon level backdoors?
In T2? Source?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Triangulation
iirc this was a register level exploit. no software in iOS or macOS touched the undisclosed register, but when the right secret key was entered, you got full read/write primitives on the silicon