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![]() ![]() In my eyes, the text of that dialog window should read: "macOS doesn't want to launch this application because it is not notarized. Using my application name and the word "malware" in one sentence is suggestive and extremely offensive by Apple. Honestly, I take great offense on the wording of this. ![]() If you launch an non-notarized application in macOS 10.15, you get this dangerously worded scare dialog: It turns out that the hyped codesigning did NOT prevent bad things from happening, and so now Apple forces developers to upload their applications to Apple, so that they can do inexplicable things to the code, and when they think all might be fine, they give you a special stamp of approval. Didn't we already have the super safe and amazing "codesigning", which was stuffed down our throats with Mac OS X 10.7? This codesigning was supposed to prevent dangerous code of unknown origin from being executed on your Mac.īut the introduction of codesigning by Apple was a total fiasco, riddled with bugs, failing developer tools, missing integrations, no documentation at all, and many other problems, and it took Apple four full years to get it to work more often than not.Īnd yes, that process was called codesigning hell, and for good reasons. This announcement did concern and puzzle me a lot. At WWDC 2018, Apple introduced a new "security" feature to macOS called Notarizing. ![]()
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