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Is this automatable with AppleScript, or similar? If so, then there are possibly some vectors that Apple are trying to block.

There are likely many better ways to handle these situations, but I'm not sure I really expect it from the recent Apple. The most recent Apple is recognizing issues (i.e. MacBook Pro keyboard), but I doubt the whole organization has caught up.

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What, dragging a file and dropping it onto an application to grant it access? I am not sure. I'd like to think that doing this programmatically would be locked down if it allows an application to extend their access without user consent.

You'd like to think? Operating systems have had loads of vulnerabilities from features like this. There needs to be defense in depth.

It's so darned important to skip the step of asking the user if they want to make the file world, group, or user readable. So darned! I bet the guy who invented this has a patent and is a vp by now ....

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