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Apple granted special security entitlement to notorious MacKeeper
- jmnicolas 6y agoSome context / explanation would be nice for someone that don't own a MAC and doesn't know what a "EndpointSecurity entitlement" is and what MacKeeper does.
- pinewurst 6y agoMacKeeper is an aggressively sold “security” package that many/most people think of as malware - for their business practices and functionality. It used to be very hard to remove as well. I don’t know precisely what the entitlement allows but I’m presuming it allows an app to insert itself into the network packet path to examine and possibly drop traffic. Certainly nothing I’d trust MacKeeper with.
- jmnicolas 6y agoOK I get it, it's the Norton of MacOS. Thanks.
- pinewurst 6y agoNorton would be several steps up.
- jmnicolas 6y agoYikes! How come Apple allows it? I thought they were super stringent about what they allow on their platforms (MacOS might be more lax from what i gather).
- jamil7 6y agoIf it was distributed through the AppStore Apple could reject it. Otherwise Apple could revoke the developer certificate but it’d be hard to justify it since technically it’s not exactly malware and more like an aggressively marketed scam.