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Apple assures Mac users its anti-malware feature isn’t spying on them – Engadget
Gatekeeper is a MacOS component designed to stop you running malware. A server outage, however, made security researchers look at what it does more closely.
Essentially, if your Mac is connected to the internet, Gatekeeper will check to see if it’s safe to run a piece of software. Say, you click launch on Photoshop, your computer will ping an Apple server to ensure that Adobe still has a valid developer certificate. This process ordinarily is quick and invisible to users, except the volume of people upgrading to MacOS Big Sur overwhelmed the system and slowed it to a crawl.
Researchers, curious as to the cause of the slowdown, began analyzing the data…
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