I'm probably stating the obvious, but I think it's always worth keeping in mind that these software verification systems, both on Windows and now MacOS, are <i>not for us</i>.<p>Ten years ago, I was constantly getting laptops dropped off at my house from friends and family who'd picked up some virus and needed a clean install. That doesn't happen anymore, and it's not because they're no longer using laptops - they are.<p>It's thanks to these security systems. And yes, there are privacy implications. But for most people, you'd have to compare those to the privacy implications of having some virus sweeping your hard drive.<p>If you're the sort of person who reads Hacker News you can probably spot a fake program or dodgy link in e-mail a mile off. But if you're not interested enough to care enough to know the difference, there's no free lunch on the privacy issue.
Likely the last straw that breaks the camels back for me.<p>* Have always had to do some mental gymnastics to rationalize the price increases for similar hardware<p>* MacOS has slowly been more and more hostile towards my user flow<p>* Butterfly keyboards and touchbar have made it more difficult for me to use<p>* Lack of memory upgrades (with steep price increases)<p>* And now we have a phoning home operation that raises privacy concerns and grinds my laptop to a halt :(<p>Been eyeing a System76 laptop for a while... <a href="https://system76.com/laptops/galago" rel="nofollow">https://system76.com/laptops/galago</a>
Apple Support System Status Page - <a href="https://www.apple.com/support/systemstatus/" rel="nofollow">https://www.apple.com/support/systemstatus/</a><p>> macOS Software Update - Resolved Issue
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Users may not have been able to download macOS Software Updates on Mac computers.<p>> iMessage - Resolved Issue
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Just a random thought: How many <i>total</i> hashes of applications does Gatekeeper track?<p>It's not that hard to have a SQLite database of the 50,000+ most common hashes physically on the computer... It would be <i>tiny.</i> If there even are that many!
Whats up with Apple's QA lately, update issues, the other issue with third party apps not working, I was really looking forward to try out the new safari (with all the promised battery life improvements).
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It's just weird none of the high profile tech sites or social media I followed mentioned this outage? I really hoped for more of a noticeable backlash for a high possibility of change.
This was a bug exacerbated by a server-side misconfiguration.<p>GateKeeper notarization checks already "fail open" by allowing the launch if something goes wrong. Unfortunately a bug in certificate revocation checks caused excessive delays when the server fails to respond so unlike notarization checks this didn't "fail open" as intended.
It still amazes me how companies often underestimate their server capacity at the launch of a new product.<p>I would think they'd have a backup plan to offload some of of the load to some cloud providers like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.