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cyral on May 13, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Can you trust that permission pop-up on macOS?

Problem is most users will not care or understand it. Someone will spoof the dialog without the special icon or phrase and users would still enter the password.

trollbridge on May 13, 2025 [–]

Banks did this years ago, but a few surveys showed nobody actually checked for their key phrase or image.

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