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I don't think having Gatekeeper disabled is a very big deal. It's one of the first things I disable on a new Mac. I've never had it stop an actual piece of ma

I don't think having Gatekeeper disabled is a very big deal. It's one of the first things I disable on a new Mac. I've never had it stop an actual piece of malware, and it triggers false positives on practically everything. That said, I have no idea why anybody would download XCode from a third party...

nadams 11y ago
> That said, I have no idea why anybody would download XCode from a third party... Easily explainable really. Went to [their favorite search engine], searched for "Xcode download" and clicked the first result which may not be from Apple (or an advertising).
- gpvos 11y ago
  If you do that, you're too stupid to be a developer, really.
  - jahewson 11y ago
    Apparently not.
  - dang 11y ago
    Personal attacks are not allowed on Hacker News.
e28eta 11y ago
Apparently downloads from Apple in China are very slow. So it's common practice to get it from a p2p network instead. I can totally understand it, but wouldn't do it myself (I think)
epmatsw 11y ago
If you've had it disabled for a while, you should give it another go. Just about every app is signed now. I think the only one on my machine that isn't at this point is PopcornTime (for obvious reasons).
- jlarocco 11y ago
  Actually, many Apple upgrades have a side effect of turning it back on, so I end up giving it another shot whether I want to or not every few months. Both my MBP and iMac had it turned on after the last Apple updates a few days ago, and I found out when I wasn't allowed to run something. If it were just unsigned apps I wouldn't mind so much, but it's the stupid, "This application came from the internet..." dialog box that drives me nuts most of the time.
jonknee 11y ago
> I've never had it stop an actual piece of malware, and it triggers false positives on practically everything. Well it would have stopped this actual piece of malware! How often are you installing unsigned applications that a single right click to add to a whitelist is too much effort?
- jlarocco 11y ago
  > Well it would have stopped this actual piece of malware! And I'm not infected by this piece of malware, so I still trust myself over Gatekeeper. > How often are you installing unsigned applications that a single right click to add to a whitelist is too much effort? Far more often than I install things from the app store. I don't find it to be a useful feature, so I disable it.
  - jonknee 11y ago
    > And I'm not infected by this piece of malware, so I still trust myself over Gatekeeper. That's idiotic.

nadams 11y ago

> That said, I have no idea why anybody would download XCode from a third party... Easily explainable really. Went to [their favorite search engine], searched for "Xcode download" and clicked the first result which may not be from Apple (or an advertising).

gpvos 11y ago
If you do that, you're too stupid to be a developer, really.
- jahewson 11y ago
  Apparently not.
- dang 11y ago
  Personal attacks are not allowed on Hacker News.

e28eta 11y ago

Apparently downloads from Apple in China are very slow. So it's common practice to get it from a p2p network instead. I can totally understand it, but wouldn't do it myself (I think)

epmatsw 11y ago

If you've had it disabled for a while, you should give it another go. Just about every app is signed now. I think the only one on my machine that isn't at this point is PopcornTime (for obvious reasons).

jlarocco 11y ago
Actually, many Apple upgrades have a side effect of turning it back on, so I end up giving it another shot whether I want to or not every few months. Both my MBP and iMac had it turned on after the last Apple updates a few days ago, and I found out when I wasn't allowed to run something. If it were just unsigned apps I wouldn't mind so much, but it's the stupid, "This application came from the internet..." dialog box that drives me nuts most of the time.

jonknee 11y ago

> I've never had it stop an actual piece of malware, and it triggers false positives on practically everything. Well it would have stopped this actual piece of malware! How often are you installing unsigned applications that a single right click to add to a whitelist is too much effort?

jlarocco 11y ago
> Well it would have stopped this actual piece of malware! And I'm not infected by this piece of malware, so I still trust myself over Gatekeeper. > How often are you installing unsigned applications that a single right click to add to a whitelist is too much effort? Far more often than I install things from the app store. I don't find it to be a useful feature, so I disable it.
- jonknee 11y ago
  > And I'm not infected by this piece of malware, so I still trust myself over Gatekeeper. That's idiotic.