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Are App Store apps more secure than from DMG on the internet?
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Anything uploaded to the Apple App Store goes through a standard review process before Apple will let you release it on their store. Random DMG files you download from a website don’t.
Does that mean the app is more “secure”? Not necessarily. But you can at least be reasonably confident it’s not malware if nothing else.
There is always a chance of malware, but that chance goes down with reviews.
I did say reasonably confident, not 100% sure 😉
100%.
I only tossed that comment in there because there is always one Lemmy user who says “remember that one time” about a random app sneaking something past a reviewer.
Reviewers are humans and are imperfect. They’ve even missed garbage that I’ve accidentally submitted in a build. 😆