Comment by tpmoney
So I thought that might be the dialog you're talking about which is why I thought it was weird that ghostty didn't have it and curl seemed to work just fine. I also could swear that it did show you rejected apps in the list just with the permission turned off.
After experimenting a bit, it seems like:
1) You're right that it doesn't show the rejected apps in the list. Seems like the only way to find that is to query the tcc sqlite db.
2) The permission does apply equally to the built in `curl` as it does to the homebrew installed curl.
3) What it doesn't apply to apparently is the gateway address on your network, regardless of which app you use.
4) It also doesn't apply to all "private" IP space addresses, just ones that are on your subnet. So for example, I have an IOT subnet on my network on its own VPN with a route in the gateway for accessing it from some specific devices on the primary LAN. Without the permission, I can ping and curl (with both the built in and homebrew versions) all of the devices on the IOT subnet. But I can't ping or curl (again with either version) any of the devices on the LAN subnet. Turn the permission on and I can hit everything on the local subnet fine from all the devices.
5) I also validate that the above rules are true even for an application (alacritty in this case) that had never been given permission (in case setting and then removing the permission did something odd)
> The keyword is SILENTLY. The permission requests should be logged and made available in a central location, where they can be reviewed.
This I agree on, the rejected apps should show in the privacy permissions, even if in a collapsed tab/pane so that you can review later. I could swear it used to do this, but maybe I'm thinking of iOS which does do that.
> 2) The permission does apply equally to the built in `curl` as it does to the homebrew installed curl.
I think this might have been fixed? `codesign -dvvv /usr/bin/curl` no longer prints anything about permissions. I definitely remember investigating this particular point.
> 3) What it doesn't apply to apparently is the gateway address on your network, regardless of which app you use.
Doesn't work for me. I can't ping or HTTP into my gateway from a terminal app that doesn't have this permission.
Edit: apparently pinging the gateway works if you're on WiFi. But not with wired Ethernet. Wow.