You can’t trust macOS Privacy and Security settings
In this Friday’s magic demonstration, I’m going to show how what you see in Privacy & Security settings can be misleading, when it tells you that an app doesn’t have access to a protected folder, but it really does. Although it appears you can achieve this using several ordinary apps, to make things simpler and clearer I’ve written a little app for this purpose, Insent, available from here: insent11 I’m working in macOS Tahoe 26.4, but I suspect you should see much the same in any version from macOS 13.5 onwards, as supported by Insent. For this magic demo, I’m only going to use two of Insent’s six buttons: Open by consent, which results in Insent choosing a random text file from the top level of your Documents folder, and displaying its name and the start of its…
