Apple OS Pinned Topic Please 📍

For security reasons please can we have a pinned topic that is run by the developers of new builds to allow people to keep secure at the same time as upgrading Mac OS.

It needs to have a focus on MINIMUM required permissions.
What are they?

For example I just installed Monterey now and then I get this with the app (image)

Given the amount of work that goes into the IDEs to comply with updates and offer new features developers know for certain what is required but there is no clear information on it. I love the way the philosophy of the forums are to 'make people think' and not provide all the answers but this is something that doesn't need to fit into that category to help protect people.

Without it you have to hunt around to try and work it out and I can cover my back with Little Snitch, BlockBlock (Why don't you have it?) and LuLu (bomb proof, GOV grade if you know how to set it up properly :joy:) but a lot of people will probably open themselves up to security vulnerabilities.

People are tempted to open up their firewall, open up their security settings, their sharing settings, all of which could be a risk.

A lot of the people are young people who have over-confidence afforded by their non-tech families who want to complement them for whatever reason but they don't understand vulnerabilities and just set everything to achieve something that works.

Locked topic would probably be good, building it into the latest installer like for example Little Snitch do during install would be better and not difficult to achieve. Like open screen saying "You need to open security settings" and then alter "Access to desktop". Their system leads a good example to follow for Arduino.

You just need to tell people, you need to do this (minimum) and evolve it with the Mac builds, if they change requirements, and if they introduce security issues discuss them.

Hi @ardyouino. Thanks for taking the time to give the Arduino IDE 2.0.0 release candidate a try!

In order to gather more information that might help us to troubleshoot your problem, I'm going to ask you to run the Arduino IDE from the command line, then share the output.

Please do this:

  1. Open your Applications folder.
  2. Open Utilities.
  3. Double-click on "Terminal".
  4. Type the following command:
    "/Applications/Arduino IDE.app/Contents/MacOS/Arduino IDE"
    
  5. Press Enter
  6. Wait for the Arduino IDE to finish starting, or failing to start.
    If it starts, attempt to open a sketch, or whatever action it is that causes the failure.
  7. Switch back to the terminal window if the Arduino IDE window took the focus.
  8. Press +A.
    This will select all the text in the terminal window.
  9. Press +C.
    This will copy the selected text to the clipboard.
  10. Open a forum reply here by clicking the Reply button.
  11. Click the </> icon on the post composer toolbar.
    This will add the forum's code block markup (```) to your reply to make sure the output is correctly formatted.
    Code block
  12. Press +V.
    This will paste the output into the code block.
  13. Move the cursor outside of the code block markup before you add any additional text to your reply.
  14. Click the Reply button to post the output.

Please let me know if you have any questions or problems while following those instructions.

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