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Desktops (Apple) Operating Systems Privacy Security

Apple Releases macOS Mojave Featuring Dark Mode and Other Features; Earlier Today a Security Researcher Published 0Day Bypass For a Privacy Bug in the new OS 72

Posted by msmash from the how-about-that dept.
Apple on Monday made available to the public macOS Mojave -- aka macOS 10.14, the latest major update to its desktop operating system. From a report: Though Mojave is substantially focused on under-the-hood improvements, it includes several major changes to the Mac's Finder, as well as a small collection of apps that were ported from iOS. On the Finder side, Apple has introduced a system-wide Dark Mode, which optionally reskins the entire user interface with black or dark gray elements. Dark Mode pairs up with Dynamic Desktop, which can automatically adjust certain desktop images in sync with time of day (morning, afternoon, and evening) changes. Minutes ahead of the release, Patrick Wardle, chief researcher officer at Digita Security, tweeted a video of an apparent privacy feature bypass that's designed to prevent apps from improperly accessing a user's personal data. From a report: For years, Macs have forced apps to ask for permission before accessing your contacts and calendar after some iOS apps were caught uploading private data. Apple said at its annual developer conference this year that it would expand the feature to include apps asking for permission to access the camera, microphone, email and backups. Wardle told TechCrunch that his findings are "not a universal bypass" of the feature, but that the bug could allow a malicious app to grab certain protected data, such as a user's contacts, when a user is logged in.
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Apple Releases macOS Mojave Featuring Dark Mode and Other Features; Earlier Today a Security Researcher Published 0Day Bypass Fo More

Apple Releases macOS Mojave Featuring Dark Mode and Other Features; Earlier Today a Security Researcher Published 0Day Bypass Fo

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  • Is that a title or summary? (Score:1, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward

    I barely got through the title before I needed a rest.

  • LOL fuck apple (Score:1)

    by Anonymous Coward

    better double down on security and writing stable code apple.

  • A nice stability/speed release (Score:5, Interesting)

    by SuperKendall ( 25149 ) on Monday September 24, 2018 @12:30PM (#57368666)

    I'm pretty happy that Apple occasionally does releases meant more to improve speed and stability than just pile on features.

    This is one of those releases, it makes my older MacBook Pro feel a bit faster, especially along with improvements to speed made in Xcode 10.

    • Yeah, who cares if it uploads all your contacts to anyone who asks for it? It has a cool new Dark Mode and changing images based on the time of day.

      • Wrong source (Score:3, Insightful)

        by SuperKendall ( 25149 )

        Yeah, who cares if it uploads all your contacts to anyone who asks for it?

        IDK, why not ask every Android user?

        BURN

      • I can't believe people are excited over the time-of-day screen saver. About 20 years ago there was a program called Sundial which did exactly the same thing.

    • I respect any company that can take a step and have a major code iteration be a refactor. I don't mind having a release just be bug fixes and security improvements. That to me, is more important than new features.

      • I respect any company that can take a step and have a major code iteration be a refactor. I don't mind having a release just be bug fixes and security improvements. That to me, is more important than new features.

        At this point in the game, it is.

  • Who cares about privacy bugs? We have a Dark Mode.

    - SuperKendall

  • Windows 10, Most Linux Distibutions, and now OS X all seem to like this Dark theme. It was cool for a while, but trying to install a Light Theme is nearly impossible now, and all new apps seems to want to use it as well.

    Sure it looks all Sci-Fi. but in a retro way.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by dgood ( 139443 )

      Come on, you didn't even need to RTA! It's right there in the summary:

      system-wide Dark Mode, which optionally reskins the entire user interface with black or dark gray elements

      If you don't want Dark Mode, just turn it off. You don't have to install a "Light Theme".

    • Also, AFAIK, Apple's dark mode is not "everything dark all the time" but instead adjusts your desktop and apps according to the time of day. Light during the day, darker in the evening and dark during night time.

  • If you have Firefox on the mac, check out this extension:
    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-... [mozilla.org]

    It basically allows you to darkify (is that a word?) all websites. ALL of them. It has a slider if you want to play with the intensity of the darkifying. You can exclude certain sites, of course. With a whitelist. Yea no, I'm not kidding, it's called a whitelist.

  • So that's what this year's fashion will be. (Score:3)

    by Chelloveck ( 14643 ) on Monday September 24, 2018 @04:30PM (#57370160)
    "Dark" is the new "flat". Can't wait for green text to become all the rage, too.

  • Touting themes...in 2018? (Score:3)

    by oogoliegoogolie ( 635356 ) on Monday September 24, 2018 @04:38PM (#57370200)

    Did some project manager at Apple fire up their 25-year old 486 running Windows 3.1, play with theme settings, and think "How can we market this today"?

    Apple really is running out of ideas.

  • Installed .. it's faster, but Dark Mode naaaaaaaa (Score:3)

    by niks42 ( 768188 ) on Monday September 24, 2018 @05:52PM (#57370526)
    Dark Mode lasted about three minutes. It's garbage and hurt my eyes.

    Give me proper skins like Gnome.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by Megane ( 129182 )
      At night I prefer to just set my backlight to minimum level. The only thing worse than dark mode is forced dark mode. I have made custom CSS for a couple of web sites I regularly read (one of them is Hackaday) to override that eye cancer.

  • Comment removed (Score:3)

    by account_deleted ( 4530225 ) on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @01:24AM (#57371768)
    Comment removed based on user account deletion

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