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Title: macOS Mojave: For app permissions, what’s the difference between Accessibility and Full Disk Access?
Post by: HCK on October 17, 2018, 04:05:24 pm
macOS Mojave: For app permissions, what’s the difference between Accessibility and Full Disk Access?

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<p>The Mac has avoided widespread malware, and Apple tries to keep ahead of the ways in which malicious software can gain a foothold in macOS. In 2015 with El Capitan, that was System Integrity Protection (https://www.macworld.com/article/2948140/os-x/private-i-el-capitans-system-integrity-protection-will-shift-utilities-functions.html), to keep system files from being modified. Sierra in 2017 removed an option to allow unsigned Mac apps (https://www.macworld.com/article/3140183/macs/how-to-install-an-app-in-macos-sierra-thats-not-signed-by-a-developer.html) to run without a prompt.</p><p>Now in Mojave, macOS has forced apps to request certain kinds of system-level privileges for behavior that it generally allowed in previous releases. In some cases with older apps that haven’t been updated, you have to take a manual step to keep them working, too.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3311982/macs/the-difference-between-accessibility-and-full-disk-access.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>

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