There goes any temptation I had to buy an M1 Mac. Thanks for the warning Apple!
macOS unable to open any non-Apple application
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#372Sincerely and without any intention to troll or be sarcastic: I'm puzzled that people are willing buy a computer/OS where (apparently) software can/will fail to launch if some central company server goes down. Maybe I'm just getting this wrong, because I can honestly not quite wrap my head around this. This is such a big no-go, from a systems design point of view. Even beyond unintentional glitches at Apple, just ima…
> I'm puzzled that people are willing buy a computer/OS where (apparently) software can/will fail to launch if some central company server goes down.
For the same reason every human frequently makes decisions with greater-than-zero risk: because we're either unaware of the risk, or because we believe the tradeoff is a good one, and the benefits are worth the risk-adjusted costs.
Re: macOS unable to open any non-Apple application
#373Sincerely and without any intention to troll or be sarcastic: I'm puzzled that people are willing buy a computer/OS where (apparently) software can/will fail to launch if some central company server goes down. Maybe I'm just getting this wrong, because I can honestly not quite wrap my head around this. This is such a big no-go, from a systems design point of view. Even beyond unintentional glitches at Apple, just ima…
> I'm puzzled that people are willing buy a computer/OS where (apparently) software can/will fail to launch if some central company server goes down. Maybe I'm just getting this wrong, because I can honestly not quite wrap my head around this. This is such a big no-go, from a systems design point of view. The answer is pretty simple: these problems are extremely rare, they don't last very long, and they tend to have…
There's software "EazyFlixPix" which shut down its authentication server - so everyone who purchased the app can no longer install it (unsure, but they might be also prevented from running it too).
Feels problematic.
Re: macOS unable to open any non-Apple application
#374OCSP is Online Certificate Status Protocol. The connection to ocsp.apple.com is checking the status of the certificate used to code sign the launching app. I wrote an article about this a couple weeks ago because of the temporary revocation of HP's signing cert for printer drivers on the Mac: https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/revocation.html
So is checking for security certificates good or bad, now?
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#375"If you're now experiencing hangs launching apps on the Mac, I figured out the problem using Little Snitch." Well, how interesting that Apple's software is going to be bypassing Little Snitch, making it harder to discover and fix this sort of issue.
> Well, how interesting that Apple's software is going to be bypassing Little Snitch, making it harder to discover and fix this sort of issue. Source?
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#3762021: The year of the Linux desktop?
But seriously, I have installed Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS on my personal Lenovo ThinkPad P1 Gen 2, and work Dell Precision 5550, and it works fine in both cases. Stick with it for a month and macOS becomes old news. Also I think OEMs are wising up to "Linux = free" and charging for Windows on their laptops again, so you can also save some money on OS licensing going forwards.
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#377There goes any temptation I had to buy an M1 Mac. Thanks for the warning Apple!
It's completely unrelated to M1 and also affecting Mojave and Catalina, apparently. It's a security signature check service problem. Some might argue that it should be easy to disable security signature checks, system wide (which is what the provided instruction achieve). Many more would probably argue that disabling these checks would be bad for security, especially for the average user.
I'm curious what security researchers think of this. Further evidence that security is a doomed endeavor, since it's necessarily at odds with convenience?
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#378I don't see MacBook Pro mentioned in the @lapcatsoftware tweet. Seems like this screw-up would affect all Macs, no?
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#379Maybe it's just me but the idea that my computer lets Apple (+ any LE organizations) surveil my app launches seems so much scarier than any malware.
This has happened since forever on Mac, Windows and Ubuntu.
Sorry, not on Ubuntu. It's easy to check, compile a binary, run it, and use wireshark to watch your uplink.
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#380Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is almost as bad as relying China on Personal Protective Equipment and quickly running out during the pandemic earlier this year. Imagine if the USA actually comes under an attack.The apple spaceship would be high on the list of targets. All of sudden hospitals can't run their computers or communications. Disaster!
Please stop fear mongering. If Apple servers actually go down, there's no issue.
Referring to the USA, this might indeed be leaning towards fear mongering .. on the other hand, for any other country .. the "opportunity" to systemically disrupt Apple computers in that country might now be considered a (diplomatic) soft power (of the USA), from this day forward.