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After Catalina's increase in ostentatious nagging for the supposed sake of security, something they made fun of Microsoft for during Windows Vista [0], I really hope there isn't some paradigm shift inside Apple to become just as bad regarding alerts and popups.

[0] https://i.imgur.com/442C7Ij.jpg (slide from an ancient WWDC)

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Catalina's security is significantly more useful that Vista's. Unlike accepting a UAC prompt, which was equivalent to running as root and often required for innocuous apps to function correctly, while allowing non-UAC approved apps to access and delete almost all of the logged-in user's own data and files, Catalina has a sandbox feature that protects untrusted apps from accessing even the own user's files/photos/contacts/etc, while almost no apps ever require root permissions

I'm not sure they "get it", to be honest; most of the engineers run with security protections disabled so they don't see these…

> most of the engineers run with security protections disabled so they don't see these…

Are you talking about engineers within Apple? What is your source for this information?

nvram boot-args="amfi_get_out_of_my_way=0x1"

Sure, the option may exist, but that doesn't mean that Apple developers use it daily.

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