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Of course, it happens only with developers who turn Gatekeeper off. As frustrated as some people are with Gatekeeper, this is exactly the kind of thing that it is designed to protect against. I've never turned Gatekeeper off on my macs (nor UAC off on Windows).

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I think this illustrates the balance you have to strike to have an effective security system. If you make it too annoying for legitimate use, you'll get people to disable it so that it no longer protects them.

I don't know what the best answer is, but Gatekeeper could stand to be a little less obstructive when the user legitimately trusts something that the system doesn't know about.

Apple's answer will, sadly, probably be to make it impossible to disable.

Right click -> open. If you open an app this way, the gatekeeper dialog box will allow you to launch the app if you want (but the warning will still be shown). Once you open the app for the first time, you won't be prompted again.

Shameless plug for my blog post on how the UX of Gatekeeper should be improved https://rsy96.github.io/blogs/2015/09/20/gatekeeper-should-b...

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