The Evolution of macOS Gatekeeper

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by terracatta • 4 years ago

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terracatta• 4 years ago

While researching this article we rewatched this interview with Jobs at "All Things D" D3 conference which gives a lot of interesting insights into Jobs' mindset about the evolution of macOS at the time. https://youtu.be/iGXdnLMbnds?t=1798

My favorite Jobs quote (which we featured in the article is)

"Avie Tevanian, the person that was running software at the time, showed us OS X and every time you wanted to load an application into OS X, whether it was off the internet or even off a disc, you had to type your name and password–you had to authenticate. And we gave him incredible shit for that. We said ‘Avie, are you nuts? This is the Mac!’ And he said, ‘trust me.’ And so we deferred to Avie on that after trying to twist his arm for a year. And boy, was he ahead of his time."

I'm sure that's absolutely a very liberal use of the word "we" and it was likely Steve himself banging on Avie's door trying to get him to capitulate and remove the prompt which would have fundamentally set a different tone for OS X security going forward.

The Evolution of macOS Gatekeeper

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