On: I help seniors with technology issues

[fsflover]

Information about every executable your run on "your" laptop goes to a special server belonging to Apple. It must be a huge and costly mistake...

[such12 → fsflover]

Nobody is saying that the malware check is a mistake.

[fsflover → such12]

But it is.

[such12 → fsflover]

No it isn’t. Most apple users rely on apple to protect them from threats.

[fsflover → such12]

The best security you can get is in prison. I wonder why people don't want to go there. /s

You can implement malware check in many ways. This one is the worst; it also introduces a huge attack surface.