Comment on Apple to Australians: You’re Too Stupid to Choose Your Own Apps

• vala@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  To be fair that’s not really true. Gatekeeper is deeply integrated into the OS and is extremely strict.

  As opposed to windows, macOS will effectively refuse to run any software that is not signed and notarized by Apple themselves.

  I’m not a fan of this behaviour but that’s the way it is.

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    As opposed to windows, macOS will effectively refuse to run any software that is not signed and notarized by Apple themselves.

    You can put Windows in strict mode but it makes the computer virtually unusable. The other thing been is it there are techniques that attackers can use to bypass these checks thus making the signatures irrelevant anyway.

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  • defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You can use an immutable Linux distro (SteamOS being the most popular) and install software with flatpak, which is sandboxed using bubblewrap.

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    • brbposting@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      That sounds really interesting!

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  • neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’m pretty sure that can be turned off in security stings.

    If not, you can hold down control or command when launching the so the first time to have the option to run the software anyway.

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