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> macOS privacy protections are mainly security theater and only harm legitimate Mac developers while allowing malware apps to bypass them through many existing
by yardie 6y ago
> macOS privacy protections are mainly security theater and only harm legitimate Mac developers while allowing malware apps to bypass them through many existing holes such as the one I'm disclosing
So this is just another abuse of the term "security theatre." Door locks, for example, are legitimate security. There are plenty of lock picking sets on the market. But that does not mean door locks do not work. TCC works because a casual user isn't trying to override it. But if it didn't exist then users would have no protection at all. It still comes down to the person sitting behind the computer is in complete command of it. And security knowledge is the best security you can buy.
- Wowfunhappy 6y ago> It still comes down to the person sitting behind the computer is in complete command of it. No I'm not. If I had complete command, I could actually turn off the damn prompts so my own scripts worked.
- yardie 6y agoIf you are physically in front of it and have admin privileges there probably is a non-trivial way to disable those prompts. Disabling SIP and all sorts of protections is involved.
- Wowfunhappy 6y agoI've tried! I keep SIP off anyway, so it's certainly possible, but Apple neglected to actually give us a mechanism for turning off TCC, and I'm not an OS developer. There isn't a boot flag, or a process you can disable, or anything like that.
- _qulr 6y agoAdmin privileges are not involved in any way.
- programAgaib 6y agoSecurity theatre works for Apple. Customers buy the products and can logically say "I value my security so I buy Apple products".