Hmmm, can you clarify what you mean by "malicious grants of permission"? Do you mean when a piece of software (malware, in this case) tells the OS to give it pe

Hmmm, can you clarify what you mean by "malicious grants of permission"? Do you mean when a piece of software (malware, in this case) tells the OS to give it permission to hide the dot, when the user hasn't consented? If that's the definition you're using - MacOS already guards against that, simply because the orange dot is already being implemented in software in a way that is difficult/impossible for ordinary programs to change (but is controllable by the OS). And, from what I understand, MacOS already has many settings that are OS-controlled - you can't do certain things without authenticating yourself to the OS, and neither can software on your behalf. If that's not quite right, I'll have to ask you to elaborate on what scenario you're thinking of.