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macOS unable to open any non-Apple application

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2603 points mattsolle | 5 comments | 12 Nov 20 21:00 UTC | HN request time: 0.879s | source
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submeta ◴[12 Nov 20 21:15 UTC] No.25075156[source]▶
Unbelievable. When I read the tweet (tried to post here as well), I suddenly realized why my Mac was unresponsive an hour ago.

Here is another tweet that describes the problem in more detail:

https://mobile.twitter.com/llanga/status/1326989724704268289

> I am currently unable to work because macOS sends hashes of every opened executable to some server of theirs and when `trustd` and `syspolicyd` are unable to do so, the entire operating system grinds to a halt.

EDIT:

As others pointed out, I put this to my `/etc/hosts` file and refreshed it like so:

    sudo emacs /etc/hosts # add `0.0.0.0 ocsp.apple.com` 
    sudo dscacheutil -flushcache; sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder # refresh hosts
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read_if_gay_ ◴[12 Nov 20 21:49 UTC] No.25075547[source]▶
I started panicking mildly thinking my drive was failing or something.

And just before this, I finally managed to fix Spotlight pegging one core at 100% constantly. Next thing, I reboot into a laggy system. macOS is my favorite OS, but the shit I put up with... it's basically an abusive relationship at this point.

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auslegung ◴[12 Nov 20 22:15 UTC] No.25075908[source]▶
> macOS is my favorite OS, but the shit I put up with...

Idk, the several Linux distros I’ve used recently, and Windows, have a much longer list of “shit _I_ put up with”

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GordonS ◴[12 Nov 20 22:35 UTC] No.25076146[source]▶
Can you really think of a single thing worse than this?
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1. Thorrez ◴[13 Nov 20 04:50 UTC] No.25079002[source]▶
My Lenovo Windows laptop came installed with malware that MITMed all my https connections and also allowed anyone else to MITM all my https connections.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfish#Lenovo_security_inci...

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2. GordonS ◴[13 Nov 20 09:18 UTC] No.25080570[source]▶
That's terrible, but it's not the fault of the OS vendor; presumably such a malware could be distributed with any OS.
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3. pilsetnieks ◴[13 Nov 20 10:34 UTC] No.25080951[source]▶
Ironically, it couldn't be with macOS, which this whole thread is about avoiding.
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4. ric2b ◴[13 Nov 20 12:50 UTC] No.25081612{3}[source]▶
It certainly could if Apple wanted to do the same thing that Lenovo did.
5. Thorrez ◴[14 Nov 20 03:30 UTC] No.25090083{3}[source]▶
Would MacOS actually have prevented it? Would Superfish just have simply signed the binary? Sure it wouldn't have started up when the Apple servers are down, but that's a very small percent of the time.