I vividly remember Catalina's permissions model being mocked by Apple on televis...

		mherdeg on Dec 18, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Undocumented Catalina file access change I vividly remember Catalina's permissions model being mocked by Apple on television in a mid-2000s Get A Mac ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxOIebkmrqs Why the turnaround 10 years later? Is OS X now such a popular desktop OS that it's being attacked in a ways that weren't mainstream back then?

That’s certainly part of it. Ransomware is a big issue. Spyware is, too.