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		colejohnson66 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Detect Electron apps on Mac that hasn't been updat... Because Objective-C doesn’t have access controls. If a method exists, you can call it. A "private" API is just an undocumented one.

LeoNatan25 5 months ago [–]

Given enough motivation, access control is irrelevant too. See early Windows "private" API that was used for decades and Microsoft supported despite being "private", because they knew it was being used and they (used to) care about their users.

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