By news@appleinsider.com (Wesley Hilliard) Apple has strict guidelines about protecting user data with sandboxing, but ChatGPT for Mac bypassed all of this by storing conversations in plain text until it was patched on June 28.ChatGPT for MacWhen everything is working the way it should on Mac, data should be siloed between apps so no single app can access another app’s data without APIs or user permission. ChatGPT decided to ignore Apple’s guidance and broke that structure by opting out of sandboxing and storing user conversations in plain text.Storing files this way left them open for any other Mac app to find and read them freely. That means if a user’s Mac was infected with malware or malicious apps, the private data shared with ChatGPT could be read freely. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums

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