Comment by nomel
4 years ago
It's completely unrelated to M1 and also affecting Mojave and Catalina, apparently. It's a security signature check service problem. Some might argue that it should be easy to disable security signature checks, system wide (which is what the provided instruction achieve). Many more would probably argue that disabling these checks would be bad for security, especially for the average user.
I'm curious what security researchers think of this. Further evidence that security is a doomed endeavor, since it's necessarily at odds with convenience?
I know it's unrelated. I have a Mac and was unable to do any work for around an hour, had no idea why. Windows has smart screen, but if the service is unreachable you get a popup. This is just completely unacceptable, if it's possible that a server issue could cause all apps to fail locally, there should at least be a popup explaining that's why nothing is working. I'm fed up with far more than just this. I'm saying any temptation I had for an M1 Mac is now gone.