Analysis Apple plans to revise the way it checks the trustworthiness of Mac applications when they're run – after server problems last week during the launch of macOS Big Sur prevented people's desktop apps from starting.
On Monday, Apple modified its Gatekeeper support page to address privacy concerns raised in the wake of the breakdown.
Gatekeeper is the system utility that checks that an application's developer certificate is valid before it allows the user to run the program. This verification process involves contacting Apple's servers to check the status of the certificates involved, and if those servers go down, those folks will find themselves unable to launch their software packages.
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