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		Spivak on Nov 13, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: macOS unable to open any non-Apple application Through the very mechanism people are complaining about today. If your machine is offline then it switches to a fail-open system and uses its cache to verify the binary and if it's not in the cache then it skips the check and allows it. If your machine is online then it switches to a fail-closed system so that if you can't reach the servers because of something malicious then it blocks.

ehsankia on Nov 13, 2020 [–]

So that seems like more of an analytics system to me than a protection system, if it can be circumvented so easily.

Spivak on Nov 13, 2020 | [–]

I think the philosophy is that you're not too often acquiring new software while offline so the usability trade-off isn't as bad as it seems.

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