What do you do when an app should connect to control another app or access protected data, but you never see any consent dialog? Or when you incorrectly refuse consent?
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Mojave’s first full release is looking relatively free of bugs so far. This list is updated as and when new information arrives.
Natural language parsing, privacy exploring, update investigating, xattr-tweaking, iCloud poking, log browsing: they’re all here for Mojave.
Two updates aimed primarily at Mojave users, but Taccy now gives more detailed info on code signatures for all users.
A detailed look at how users control Mojave’s privacy protection using the Privacy pane, and tccutil.
What the Accessibility list in Privacy controls is about, and how it almost made it easier to add an app to Full Disk Access.
With Mojave’s release 11 days away, its privacy protection looks even more complex, particularly when an app uses a helper tool which needs Full Disk Access.
The differences between security and privacy, why we need effective controls over both, and how those controls are different.
Control of one app by another is an important but difficult aspect of Mojave’s new privacy controls. Here’s how it handles that at present, and some of the issues it raises.
For many users, privacy controls in Mojave will pass almost unnoticed. Here are tips for those who have greater demands, and want their apps to access protected data.
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