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Apple Silicon Macs to Require Signed Code

• MBCook 6y ago
  > This new behavior doesn’t change the long-established policy that our users and developers can run arbitrary code on their Macs, and is designed to simplify the execution policies on Apple silicon Mac computers and enable the system to better detect code modifications. This doesn’t seem like a big deal.
  • Someone 6y ago
    Indeed. Apple’s linker will automatically sign code, and it seems third party tool chains will be able to do so, too (at least, that’s why I get from the phrase “which includes signatures which are now generated automatically by the linker”) One problem area could be running old unsigned x86 programs. It seems users will be able to sign those, but I expect most users wouldn’t know how to do that.
• deleted 6y ago
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