<story><title>Mac OS Catalina: more trouble than it’s worth (Part 2)</title><url>http://morrick.me/archives/8760</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chalst</author><text>Also worth reading John Gruber&amp;#x27;s complaints, over and above bugs:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; But I don’t know a single expert Mac user who is not seriously annoyed by the heavy-handed security design of Catalina. Not one. Every single expert user I know is annoyed. That is a bad place for MacOS to be. MacOS 10.16 needs a serious course correction to fix this, and if 10.16 goes the opposite way — growing even more heavy-handed in restricting professional Mac users from just using their machines as they want and expect to — I genuinely fear for the future of the Mac as a platform for serious computer users.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;daringfireball.net&amp;#x2F;2020&amp;#x2F;02&amp;#x2F;my_2019_apple_report_card&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;daringfireball.net&amp;#x2F;2020&amp;#x2F;02&amp;#x2F;my_2019_apple_report_card&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>musicale</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m kind of OK with &amp;quot;macOS Vista.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve wanted more restrictive and granular permissions for a long time. Web browsers don&amp;#x27;t need unrestricted access to the entire file system. Neither do games. Preview doesn&amp;#x27;t need to access the microphone. Word doesn&amp;#x27;t usually need to record the screen. PowerPoint should not be sending email or accessing the camera. TextEdit doesn&amp;#x27;t need access to my contacts or calendar. And I don&amp;#x27;t want any of these programs interrupting me with stupid notifications. Maybe some people want to give these extra permissions, but I want them to be off by default.&lt;p&gt;My complaint is that permissions don&amp;#x27;t go far enough; for example I never want to be interrupted by software update notifications, but there&amp;#x27;s no way to turn them off.</text></comment>
<story><title>Mac OS Catalina: more trouble than it’s worth (Part 2)</title><url>http://morrick.me/archives/8760</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chalst</author><text>Also worth reading John Gruber&amp;#x27;s complaints, over and above bugs:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; But I don’t know a single expert Mac user who is not seriously annoyed by the heavy-handed security design of Catalina. Not one. Every single expert user I know is annoyed. That is a bad place for MacOS to be. MacOS 10.16 needs a serious course correction to fix this, and if 10.16 goes the opposite way — growing even more heavy-handed in restricting professional Mac users from just using their machines as they want and expect to — I genuinely fear for the future of the Mac as a platform for serious computer users.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;daringfireball.net&amp;#x2F;2020&amp;#x2F;02&amp;#x2F;my_2019_apple_report_card&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;daringfireball.net&amp;#x2F;2020&amp;#x2F;02&amp;#x2F;my_2019_apple_report_card&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spoondan</author><text>There’s an important point to be made here about the gap between theoretical and practical security. Overly elaborate password policies (excessive complexity demands, passwords expiring, no reusing last five passwords) end up causing annoyed users to make bad decisions that compromise password security.&lt;p&gt;Similarly, an excess of popups doesn’t increase security. It annoys users to the point they stop thinking about individual security decisions.&lt;p&gt;There’s an important intersection of security research and HCI that doesn’t get discussed as much as it needs to be.</text></comment>