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The latest version of Zoom (released yesterday) also has the entitlement to send Events to other applications. It's unclear why it requires this entitlement. Anyone know?

  [>] codesign -d --entitlements :- /Applications/zoom.us.app
  
  ...
  <key>com.apple.security.automation.apple-events</key>
  <true/>

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I believe there’s a feature that allows others to take control of the screen. It could be related to this

I had the same thought, but that feature is https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/201362673-Request-... and needs permissions under Accessibility.

Maybe they also intend to allow controlling single applications at some point.

I would imagine it’s used for scheduling meetings in other apps.

Which is horrific. It should export an event/intent for the user to to route.

iirc remote mouse & keyboard control was added recently.

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