doc: remove note about macOS self-signing #32003

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   fanquake commented at 5:21 pm on March 5, 2025: member

   Followup to #31407.
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3. DrahtBot added the label Docs on Mar 5, 2025
4. glozow added this to the milestone 29.0 on Mar 5, 2025
5. doc: remove note about macOS self-signing

   Followup to #31407.

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6. fanquake force-pushed on Mar 5, 2025
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   Sjors commented at 6:03 pm on March 5, 2025: member

   ACK c873ab6f23e027af1c5837256ce3c9eccaf409cb

   The binaries we ship are signed and notarized now. If the user compiles from source, self-signing happens automatically.

   If the user (cross) compiles from source to put it on a different computer, they’ll still need to do this on the target machine. But this is probably not the right place to describe cross-compilation steps.

   Removing these instructions here is also safer: if someone messes with the binaries, the user will get an error from macOS. They might then follow the instructions here and shoot themselves in the foot by self signing a malicious binary. (a less lazy attacker would mess with the instruction of course)

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   achow101 commented at 6:39 pm on March 5, 2025: member

   It may still be useful to mention xattr -d com.apple.quarantine for the binaries since it’s necessary to do that to run them from finder. Although I’m not sure it even makes sense to try to run our binaries from finder. Even with bitcoin-qt, it still opens up a terminal that has to be open while the GUI is running.
9. luke-jr approved
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    luke-jr commented at 11:51 pm on March 5, 2025: member

    ACK, confirmed this is no longer necessary on macOS
11. fanquake marked this as ready for review on Mar 6, 2025
12. achow101 assigned achow101 on Mar 6, 2025
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    achow101 commented at 5:59 pm on March 6, 2025: member

    ACK c873ab6f23e027af1c5837256ce3c9eccaf409cb
14. DrahtBot requested review from luke-jr on Mar 6, 2025
15. achow101 merged this on Mar 6, 2025
16. achow101 closed this on Mar 6, 2025

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17. fanquake deleted the branch on Mar 6, 2025

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