Comment by jakeydus
15 hours ago
Yeah, it's less of a "GOTCHA!" and more of a weird use case that Apple engineers probably didn't think through all the way. Doesn't seem like a difficult fix at all.
If the app opens a window and prompts the user to select a directory to save a file or load a file, should that access be recorded in the privacy settings page? I'd argue that maybe there should be a verbose version of the privacy settings page, where if you _really_ want to you can see every dir that every app has ever accessed, but the vast majority of users don't care.[0]
I'm less caffeinated this morning though so maybe I misread the whole argument.
[0] edit: And whether the app still has access to that dir. Which maybe that was the point of the article. I am just skeptical generally of these kinds of exposés because while they're generally pretty fair, they'll inevitably get picked up by the geniuses on r/pcmasterrace who will spin it into "Apple Privacy and Security Settings Let Terrorists Invade Your Family Photos"
> Doesn't seem like a difficult fix at all.
Tell that to Apple engineering team who hasn’t been able to fix iCloud tab syncs after all this decade or so. Among hundreds of bugs that Apple users just live with, some even defend. Something tells me things in Apple’s OS architecture is so messily intertwined and too many things hardcoded that even competent software engineers at Apple will start having nightmares at the thought of touching them. Perils of a completely closed ecosystem (and don’t mean closed source).