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Just posted on Six Colors: Apple escalates macOS defenses while honoring its open nature

https://sixcolors.com/post/2026/05/apple-escalates-macos-defenses-while-honoring-its-open-nature/

Apple escalates macOS defenses while honoring its open nature

Gatekeeper gets in the way of non-notarized software. One of the big differences between the Mac and Apple’s other platforms is that, by design, it’s an old-school “general comput…

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Jeff Johnson 4d ago

@jsnell Notarization was just an extension of the preexisting Developer ID code signing requirement.

FileVault in iCloud Keychain is not exactly mandatory, because you don’t need to enable iCloud or iCloud Keychain to enable FileVault.

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Jason Snell

@lapcatsoftware regarding your second point: you're right, it's only a mandatory sync change for users who actually sync. If you don't sync your keys they won't change syncing methods, because there are no syncing methods. I have made a wording change there to make it less prone to misinterpretation.