alt Hacker News> Huh? Seems like a disingenuous statement. I hope they update that sentence with something more accurate.
Right, the classic use case for FDA is Terminal app, not backups. I don't think backup apps even need FDA, because they use the Apple ASR tool that already has special permissions.
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comex • yesterday at 5:54 AM
The backup apps I'm familiar with read files directly; they don't use asr.
If asr can be used to bypass FDA then that is just a security vulnerability.
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mcmcmc • last Friday at 8:45 PM
EDR and RMM are two major ones for corporate managed Macs
Even developing bog standard apps. MacOS without FDA is the death of creativity and productivity.
The permissions/security model should've expanded faster. There's huge benefits to being able to install arbitrary software and not worry about giving it access to everything.
But it would never cover everything to do with a computer.