When I give something a "Full Disk Access" permission, I expect it to have full access to what's on my disk, including "files, mail, messages, and even (gasp) browsing history"! Who are those mysterious people who expect their browsing history to be magically excluded from something called Full fucking Disk Access?
The problem isn't people who intend to provide full disk access. It's the people who unthinkingly grant full disk access to, for instance, Codex, because the AI asked them to.
Those people simply cannot be helped. At the end of the day, you can't stop people from hurting themselves by being too credulous, not without taking away their freedom. Those are the choices: either you accept that some people are foolish and will make bad decisions, or you circumscribe their ability to make decisions. There's no third option, because any halfway measures you take (like what Apple has done with these full disk access permissions) will be mindlessly ignored by someone who is too lazy or foolish to actually think about what they are doing.
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People want a computer that prevents catastrophic mistakes and Apple has the ability to deliver that.