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Refresh Santa section

Open drduh opened this issue 3 months ago • 2 comments

It is more than a few years old at this point and likely needs a complete overhaul.

drduh avatar Mar 18 '24 18:03 drduh

From your guide:

Santa can be used to only allow trusted code execution, or to blacklist known malware from executing on a Mac

This is already an macOS built-in feature called Gatekeeper. There is no need to increase the attack surface with a external program.

beerisgood avatar Apr 01 '24 19:04 beerisgood

Gatekeeper only covers apps while Santa covers all binaries, so it does provide functionality that isn't there in the base operating system.

kimg45 avatar Apr 02 '24 03:04 kimg45