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Re: Performance issue on macOS 10.15 obtaining display name for ~/Desktop, ~/Documents, and ~/Downloads
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Re: Performance issue on macOS 10.15 obtaining display name for ~/Desktop, ~/Documents, and ~/Downloads


  • Subject: Re: Performance issue on macOS 10.15 obtaining display name for ~/Desktop, ~/Documents, and ~/Downloads
  • From: Allan Odgaard via Cocoa-dev <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2020 11:26:59 +0700

On 24 Apr 2020, at 9:57, Rob Petrovec wrote:

Also weird, why would it phone home for a shell script which has neither been stapled nor even code-signed?
I think you answered the question just then… a "shell script which has neither been stapled nor even code-signed”. Google XProtect & Gatekeeper.

GateKeeper is basically Safari adding a quarantine flag (via extended attributes) to files downloaded form the internet, and then having Finder check this flag, throwing up a dialog if the flag is set, and recently, also checking if the code signature is from a verified developer (possibly refusing to launch at all, if not).

XProtect is basically a blacklist that applications are checked against. If an application matches, it’s considered malware. The blacklist is a local file on your system but updated by Apple.

These things operate very differently than having low-level system calls potentially contact Apple’s servers every time a process is launched on your system (or, as it appears to be the case on my system, when processes are accessing certain locations in the file system).
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