On 24 Apr 2020, at 11:49, Saagar Jha wrote:
GateKeeper is basically Safari adding a quarantine flag […]
Nit: not just Safari; other applications do this to at their
discretion when appropriate (for example, if they too download files
from the internet). Quarantine is just one part of GateKeeper.
Right, I said “basically” to indicate I was simplifying the
description.
But at least it was a user-space feature with co-operation from (amongst
others) Finder and Safari, without the need for any network access.
This is different from the issue being discussed, which is kernel-space
feature that does network access even for locally created files.
GateKeeper and XProtect though are probably more umbrella marketing
terms than actual technologies, so they may cover more today, for
example app translocation probably also falls under GateKeeper, and the
recent uninstall of the Zoom web server I think was said to fall under
XProtect.
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