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  1. Nygaard

    macOS PSA: Bypass Gatekeeper for faster builds/development cycles

    A few years late on this, but apparently when Gatekeeper was added in Catalina, it caused quite the splash (see Allan Odgaard's post, MacOS Catalina: Slow by Design). One of the big issues is that syspolicyd (aka Gatekeeper) phones home to Apple before the first launch of any new executable: not...
  2. C

    testing application permissions for non-open-source application

    I'm trying to test application permissions for a webkit browser I've installed. When running spctl --list --type execute I get a long list of executables none of which include the applications name. I'm trying to determine how to interpret this exactly. What would be a normal expected output...