Having evolved all the way to the current macOS 10.15 Catalina, it is Apple’s longstanding implementation of a mechanism for users to grant and restrict permissions to their private data. Specifically, it defines Security & Privacy as well as Accessibility settings on a Mac computer.Īn additional wiki facet of the matter is as follows: first introduced with the OS X 10.9 Mavericks release in 2013, TCC stands for Transparency, Consent, and Control. This is understandable, given that this is the name of a folder located within /Library/Application Support path that retains, among other things, an object named TCC.db, which is an SQLite database underlying a number of important system-wide preferences. Explore the issue where Mac malware mishandles the directory to play a privileges escalation trick and thereby take root in the host system.Īs a foreword, it’s worth pointing something out: ideally, a Mac user should never really be concerned about the entity called moreover, most people have no idea what it is and what its purpose is.
