No one really complained with 15.1 and macOS completely blocking software that is "untrusted".
You know the "move to bin" popup, which you used to unblock in the past by cmd+clicking the binary, or later via the settings menu for privacy & security (insane in its own right!)
Since 15.1, you're done and dusted. Unsigned/untrusted binaries simply will not run on macOS, regardless of how much you trust them to be. Thanks Apple.
That is a big deal, a really big deal... For the music industry, many industries and consumer grade software, such as game installers from GOG, etc. They simply don't open anymore once you install them fresh.
I raged for about 15 mins at these idiots at Apple for making such a breaking change to user space.
This is clearly not to protect the user as much as it is closing the walled garden onto users. Disgusting, silent move, in a minor release.
Thankfully I found the solution in
xattr -d com.apple.quarantine ~/binary
But what do I do once this doesn't work anymore? I really wonder. I really like the M1-M4 chips. I can't stand listening to a fan anymore. If this keeps going south I will be jumping ship to the first distro that supports this hardware properly.
A sad state of affairs. macOS is a beautiful OS with its problems but very workable. Apple is slowly picking at it and worsening it, mostly, throughout the years. Long live Snow Leopard!
I haven’t updated to 15, but I thought they just removed the ability to run unsigned software by right clicking and selecting open. My understanding was you had to manually approve it in the system settings via Gatekeeper?
Apple is 100% slowly boiling the frog in respect to locking down macOS to be like iOS. I already switched to Linux on my personal machines. I saw the writing on the wall when notarization was announced in 2017.
> However, if you choose, you can still open an app that isn’t allowed to open by manually overriding Privacy & Security settings.
There's a link to the settings, under which you have to scroll down and find a second copy of the above message and then click "Open Anyway", with then gives you a third warning:
> Open "App"? <br> Apple is not able to verify that it is free from malware that could harm your Mac or compromise your privacy. Don’t open this unless you are certain it is from a trustworthy source. [ Done ] [ Open Anyway ]
Continuing on requires authentication, and the prompt offers a fourth warning: "You are attempting to open an app that may harm your Mac or compromise your privacy."
I had to find an application to test, so I downloaded the kitty terminal emulator for macOS which was just an executable.
I tried to execute it from the shell ./kitten-darwin-arm64 and it gave me an option to cancel or move to bin. I went to system settings -> privacy & security -> and told it to allow kitten-darwin-arm64. I then rerun ./kitten-darwin-arm64 and it now had the option to "Open Anyway".
So in 15.2 it is still possible to execute software by unidentified developers.
You know the "move to bin" popup, which you used to unblock in the past by cmd+clicking the binary, or later via the settings menu for privacy & security (insane in its own right!)
Since 15.1, you're done and dusted. Unsigned/untrusted binaries simply will not run on macOS, regardless of how much you trust them to be. Thanks Apple.
That is a big deal, a really big deal... For the music industry, many industries and consumer grade software, such as game installers from GOG, etc. They simply don't open anymore once you install them fresh.
I raged for about 15 mins at these idiots at Apple for making such a breaking change to user space.
This is clearly not to protect the user as much as it is closing the walled garden onto users. Disgusting, silent move, in a minor release.
Thankfully I found the solution in
But what do I do once this doesn't work anymore? I really wonder. I really like the M1-M4 chips. I can't stand listening to a fan anymore. If this keeps going south I will be jumping ship to the first distro that supports this hardware properly.A sad state of affairs. macOS is a beautiful OS with its problems but very workable. Apple is slowly picking at it and worsening it, mostly, throughout the years. Long live Snow Leopard!