Who’s been ghost notarizing other people’s apps, and is Catalina wasting time to check whether shell scripts are notarized?
Notarization
When you open a four year-old app and discover that someone notarized it in August last year. What’s behind that surprise?
In the clear light of morning, when we’ve literally got out a bit more, we’ll surely realise how distorted our cognition has become.
Remember MacKeeper? Would it surprise you to hear that it has now been notarized? Let me tell you a little about its notorious past.
One of the last of Catalina’s promised features, hardening and notarization become fully mandatory for all new apps from today.
App translocation, signature checks, XProtect and more explained, with key messages from the log to help you diagnose problems.
Using Little Snitch, this becomes unresolvable, as the app can’t complete first run checks, and every time you try, it’s translocated to a different folder, causing Little Snitch to block it again.
What’s the point of impressive Finder illusions when users can’t rely on your explanation of how to erase a disk? Apple’s problems of 2019 considered.
Checking signatures, notarization, and 64-bit code on different items like apps, command tools, and Installer packages just got much simpler.
Even basic store facilities like restrooms contact details of who to contact when there’s a problem. Not so with Apple’s Notary Service. It just gives you spurious errors instead.
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