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Disabling the quarantine on executables downloaded from the internet strikes me as a bad idea, but that's just me.

The quarantine is the bit that causes a dialog to pop up the first time you attempt to open a file newly downloaded from the internet that has the executable bit set. Good for catching, say, executables disguised as documents, or stopping anything from exploiting a browser hole to get an executable downloaded to your machine and opened by your browser.

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