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Apple tightens Mac full-disk access amid AI-agent intrusion risk
Oct 2, 2026SOURCE: theverge.com
SO WHAT
In the thousand-day window, privilege reduction will steer AI deployment toward sandboxes—buying time for the old system while testing whether users can still choose safely.
Apple will add new limits for “Full Disk Access” as AI agents raise practical breach risk. The wire frames a consent gate tightening around “extraordinary” privileges.
This is Negative Resistance’s reframed reading of a reported signal. The headline and analysis above are our interpretation through the thousand-day-window lens. The original reporting lives at the source linked above.