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mike_hearn 31 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Can you trust that permission pop-up on macOS?

That's not a bug, it's a security feature (hack?) called translocation. It happens if you run an app that was downloaded without moving it first using the Finder.

Klonoar 31 days ago [–]

I know what the feature is called.

I would not consider something so confusing to the end user to be a security feature. This is a bug, or you could use the label "broken".

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