macOS privacy settings are not working. about qlmarkdown HOT 4 CLOSED

As stated in the readme / security, the application uses a security exception to access the entire disk. This exception is necessary to be able to access local images without having to create an additional new process (which would still operate outside the sandbox).

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As stated in the readme / security, the application uses a security exception to access the entire disk. This exception is necessary to be able to access local images without having to create an additional new process (which would still operate outside the sandbox).

Why does it need the entire disk? For example, I don't want it to access and preview the Documents folder. We should be able to toggle permission to the entire disk on-demand. That's why these settings are there.

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Because the sandbox extension can only access the clicked file and from the extension it is not possible to open a dialog to allow the user to grant access to the folder for reading images.

Once you request the preview you automatically grant read privileges on the file even if the application is not authorized to access the given folder. So, if I disable the security exception I cannot read the linked images.

The alternative is to generate the preview with a non-sandboxed process. It would actually complicate the code without improving privacy.

Anyway, if you check my code, you will see that your files are not being spied on by anyone 😉

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I don't know Swift/macOS and can't read it. then I trust you.

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