'“In macOS Mojave, Apple introduced the concept of notarization, a process that developers can go through to ensure that their software is malware-free (and must go through for their software to run on macOS Catalina). This is meant to be another layer in Apple’s protection against malware. Unfortunately, it’s starting to look like notarization may be less security and more security theater.”

Below is a link to information concerning this subject.

https://blog.malwarebytes.com/mac/2020/08/apples-notarization-process-fails-to-protect/

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Frank Croft and John Carter