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Wonder if this exploit worked with the Mac App Store version of WhatsApp and the extra sandboxing layer(?) that whole ecosystem provides.

Out of sheer hope and ignorant superstition about the wonders of sandboxing, I tend to install the App Store versions of crap like WhatsApp and Slack whenever possible.

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It would likely work for whatever directories you had granted it access to — otherwise, the situation is similar to that of iOS where the most an app has access to is its own container.

Good reason to not give apps full disk access unless they really, really need it even if it’s more convenient to do so.

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