Herewith an update from us on the Local Network Privacy issues that we and our users are experiencing. Over the past period we have done many tests with various combinations of machines and OS'es. Long story short Local Network Security settings seem to behave different between applications that have been either Downloaded, AirDropped or tranferred over a USB Drive. Airdropping the application to the machine gives the expected behavior. Installing the application by downloading it or by installing it over a USB drive gives broken behavior for Local Network Access. Deleting the application and then Airdropping the Application can fix the behavior. Having multiple versions of the same application on the machine breaks Local Network Access. Airdropping gives an additional warning on first launch, so could this be Gatekeeper related? Reproduction These are the steps where you would be able to recreate the issue, we've done this multiple times on multiple different machines on multiple OS versions. The latest OS t
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App & System Services
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Networking
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