Jason Snell4d ago

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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Show threadPeter N Lewis2d ago
@jsnell is Apple saying that about all non-Notorized apps now? Explicitly that they are Malware? Are they not worried about a slander suit brought by Epson or other companies?
Show threadJason Snell
@peternlewis Not sure how you got that read, but absolutely not. They are committed to allowing non-Notarized apps forever. But they have made it hard to run non-Notarized apps so that it's harder to socially engineer the launch of malware.
May 16 at 2:57amWeb
Show threadPeter N Lewis1d ago
@jsnell OK, that's fine, if they aren't calling all non-Notorized apps malware. I just wouldn't put it past them.