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EU antitrust: Apple shouldn't use privacy and security to stave off competition

Executive Summary

  • TCC is meant to protect user data from unauthorized access, but weaknesses in its design mean that protections are easily overridden inadvertently.
  • Automation, by design, allows Full Disk Access to be ‘backdoored’ while also lowering the authorization barrier.
  • Multiple partial and full TCC bypasses are known, with at least one actively exploited in the wild.
  • TCC does not prevent processes reading and writing to ‘protected’ locations, a loophole that can be used to hide malware.

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