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Apple Releases macOS Mojave Featuring Dark Mode and Other Features; Earlier Today a Security Researcher Published 0Day Bypass For a Privacy Bug in the new OS

Posted by msmash on from the how-about-that dept.

Apple on Monday made available to the public macOS Mojave -- aka macOS 10.14, the latest major update to its desktop operating system. From a report: Though Mojave is substantially focused on under-the-hood improvements, it includes several major changes to the Mac's Finder, as well as a small collection of apps that were ported from iOS. On the Finder side, Apple has introduced a system-wide Dark Mode, which optionally reskins the entire user interface with black or dark gray elements. Dark Mode pairs up with Dynamic Desktop, which can automatically adjust certain desktop images in sync with time of day (morning, afternoon, and evening) changes. Minutes ahead of the release, Patrick Wardle, chief researcher officer at Digita Security, tweeted a video of an apparent privacy feature bypass that's designed to prevent apps from improperly accessing a user's personal data. From a report: For years, Macs have forced apps to ask for permission before accessing your contacts and calendar after some iOS apps were caught uploading private data. Apple said at its annual developer conference this year that it would expand the feature to include apps asking for permission to access the camera, microphone, email and backups. Wardle told TechCrunch that his findings are "not a universal bypass" of the feature, but that the bug could allow a malicious app to grab certain protected data, such as a user's contacts, when a user is logged in.

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  1. Why?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Apple OS 9.xx was perfectly adequate. I was happy with it. Installing OS X broke my mac. I had to reinstall os 9.

    All this fancy OS X is nothing but bloat. The kind of bloat some busy body brown noser thinks is a good idea at a mon day morning office meeting. Bloat to create useless programmer jobs equivalent to " téléphone desanatiser " or "management consultant" of Hitchhikers Guide.

    Bloat designed to support bloated websites full of memory/CPU cl9gging advertisement.

    This is too much. I'm finished. Apple boycott for life