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0 pointszepto5y ago0 comments

Plenty of kinds of malware are harmful each time they are launched, not just once.

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ethbr05y ago· 2 in thread

The risk of launching malware a second+ time seems substantially less than the privacy leak caused by more frequent checks.

zeptoOP5y ago

This was a seriously exploitable issue that was a problem every time it was run.

I agree that this certificate mechanism is absurdly problematic.

That doesn’t justify dismissing the security risks it was intended to prevent.

_qulr5y ago

Zoom isn't malware, Apple did not revoke Zoom's Developer ID certificate, and indeed Zoom still exists on the Mac.

Zoom had a serious uninstaller bug, but that's all it was, and it's not relevant to the current discussion.

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