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I tested my own device (following this article), and found mac-native apps seem to respond well to the toggling in privacy and security settings, while 3rd party apps do not.

Pretty scary considering the blast radius of Electron apps: huge attack surface (Chromium + Node.js), require permissive entitlements to function (e.g., disable-library-validation, allow-unsigned-executable-memory), JS code is often unencrypted/easy to modify, easy inheritance to all the TCC permissions the user granted to the app.

Popular Electron Apps: Claude Desktop app, Spotify, Slack, Discord, Microsoft Teams, VS Code, Notion, LM Studio...


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