Apple is tightening macOS 'Full Disk Access' due to new risks from AI agents

Apple is tightening macOS 'Full Disk Access' due to new risks from AI agents techcrunch.com

Apple says it will add new controls around macOS’s Full Disk Access permission, warning that increasingly capable AI agents make broad access to users’ files, messages, mail, and browsing history riskier.

10 points•speckx•about 8 hours ago•2 comments•

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xukiabout 8 hours ago

It’s already difficult enough, unless Apple removes the option completely I don’t see how this improves anything. Users don’t read prompts.

chrisjjabout 8 hours ago

So, some people are suffering the consequences of their free descision to run known dangerously unreliable programs, and everyone sensible enough to not run them has to pay the price.

A.k.a. this is why we can't have nice things.

snypherabout 6 hours ago

>everyone sensible enough to not run them has to pay the price

I just run a computer where I can access the full disk, without worrying if a corporation thinks I shouldn't.

bhhaskinabout 6 hours ago

See that's the thing. They will likely limit other LLMs but leave their own access level.

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