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That's correct. AFAIK Catalina will check online for everything, even binaries you compile yourself.


Microsoft Windows also uploads your private exe’s, and then runs them on Microsoft servers:

https://medium.com/sensorfu/how-my-application-ran-away-and-...


Holy Shit. That should be illegal. All it needs is one rogue employee to potentially steal trade secrets? And dont tell me MS employees never go rogue after the recent events...


Surely it's against copyright law


> Surely it's against copyright law

It almost certainly is, but

1. You have to know it's happening before you can do anything about it

2. If your "work" isn't registered with the copyright office, you're limited to actual damages, which are probably close to $0


A law is only dealing with the consequences, it's not prevention.


TL;DR: It's an option that can be disabled, unlike on Mac. Also doesn't lock up your PC if Apple's network is having a bad day.


Is this how we look for the next Stuxnet?


wait what, how?



The behavior documented there is on FIRST run of a new executable.

You can like that behavior or find it unacceptable, but the issue in OP is not that, it was applying to executables that had already been launched plenty of times on the machine.


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Right. The recent problem (in top-level OP, and that you were presumably experiencing) was not just first run, but the behavior explained at the GP link (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23281564 , HN thread for https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/catalina-executables.htm...) is just about first-run, so the behavior explained at the GP link is not sufficient explanation for the recent problem, it's not talking about the same thing.




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