[Swordmaker]

The Apple GateKeeper vulnerability where a trusted developer, one with a Mac Developer Certification, could insert a malicious version of an Apple Library file into one of its Mac Application distributions to somehow also distribute malware that could then steal users' secret stuff, is still around despite Apple blacklisting some of the means that its discoverer showed how it could be done. Ignore that any such developer could be sued out of existence by both its customers and Apple for doing any such thing, the sky-is-falling crowd claim that it's possible a man-in-the-middle attacker could intercept someone downloading an honest developer's disk image, insert the malicious fake Apple library file, and then send it on its way . . . and that is enough of a worry for Apple to be flopping around in abject panic about this very obscure possibility. Uh, no, it isn't. The likelihood of this happening is so obscure as to be almost impossible. -- PING!

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A terrorist or saboteur would not care about being sued.

Good points, though. I’m pretty confident with security on my Mac and iPhone, but I’m still careful and don’t download sketchy things.