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SecureRandomProvider problem on Mac OS

When I run briar-desktop on Mac OS I get this exception; it does start but prints this to the console:

15:46:14.502 [main] WARN  o.b.b.s.UnixSecureRandomProvider - java.io.IOException: Operation not permitted
java.io.IOException: Operation not permitted
        at java.base/java.io.FileOutputStream.writeBytes(Native Method)
        at java.base/java.io.FileOutputStream.write(FileOutputStream.java:354)
        at java.base/java.io.DataOutputStream.writeLong(DataOutputStream.java:224)
        at org.briarproject.bramble.system.AbstractSecureRandomProvider.writeToEntropyPool(AbstractSecureRandomProvider.java:25)
        at org.briarproject.bramble.system.UnixSecureRandomProvider.writeSeed(UnixSecureRandomProvider.java:49)
        at org.briarproject.bramble.system.UnixSecureRandomProvider.getProvider(UnixSecureRandomProvider.java:41)
        at org.briarproject.bramble.crypto.CryptoComponentImpl.<init>(CryptoComponentImpl.java:78)
        at org.briarproject.bramble.crypto.CryptoModule.provideCryptoComponent(CryptoModule.java:32)
        at org.briarproject.bramble.crypto.CryptoModule_ProvideCryptoComponentFactory.provideCryptoComponent(CryptoModule_ProvideCryptoComponentFactory.java:42)
        at org.briarproject.bramble.crypto.CryptoModule_ProvideCryptoComponentFactory.get(CryptoModule_ProvideCryptoComponentFactory.java:31)
        at org.briarproject.bramble.crypto.CryptoModule_ProvideCryptoComponentFactory.get(CryptoModule_ProvideCryptoComponentFactory.java:10)
        at dagger.internal.DoubleCheck.get(DoubleCheck.java:47)
        at org.briarproject.bramble.sync.MessageFactoryImpl_Factory.get(MessageFactoryImpl_Factory.java:21)
        at org.briarproject.bramble.sync.MessageFactoryImpl_Factory.get(MessageFactoryImpl_Factory.java:8)
        at org.briarproject.bramble.sync.SyncModule_ProvideMessageFactoryFactory.get(SyncModule_ProvideMessageFactoryFactory.java:26)
        at org.briarproject.bramble.sync.SyncModule_ProvideMessageFactoryFactory.get(SyncModule_ProvideMessageFactoryFactory.java:9)
        at org.briarproject.bramble.db.DatabaseModule_ProvideDatabaseFactory.get(DatabaseModule_ProvideDatabaseFactory.java:36)
        at org.briarproject.bramble.db.DatabaseModule_ProvideDatabaseFactory.get(DatabaseModule_ProvideDatabaseFactory.java:12)
        at dagger.internal.DoubleCheck.get(DoubleCheck.java:47)
        at org.briarproject.bramble.db.DatabaseModule_ProvideDatabaseComponentFactory.get(DatabaseModule_ProvideDatabaseComponentFactory.java:40)
        at org.briarproject.bramble.db.DatabaseModule_ProvideDatabaseComponentFactory.get(DatabaseModule_ProvideDatabaseComponentFactory.java:13)
        at dagger.internal.DoubleCheck.get(DoubleCheck.java:47)
        at org.briarproject.bramble.lifecycle.LifecycleManagerImpl_Factory.get(LifecycleManagerImpl_Factory.java:30)
        at org.briarproject.bramble.lifecycle.LifecycleManagerImpl_Factory.get(LifecycleManagerImpl_Factory.java:10)
        at org.briarproject.bramble.lifecycle.LifecycleModule_ProvideLifecycleManagerFactory.get(LifecycleModule_ProvideLifecycleManagerFactory.java:26)
        at org.briarproject.bramble.lifecycle.LifecycleModule_ProvideLifecycleManagerFactory.get(LifecycleModule_ProvideLifecycleManagerFactory.java:9)
        at dagger.internal.DoubleCheck.get(DoubleCheck.java:47)
        at org.briarproject.bramble.cleanup.CleanupModule_ProvideCleanupManagerFactory.get(CleanupModule_ProvideCleanupManagerFactory.java:35)
        at org.briarproject.bramble.cleanup.CleanupModule_ProvideCleanupManagerFactory.get(CleanupModule_ProvideCleanupManagerFactory.java:11)
        at dagger.internal.DoubleCheck.get(DoubleCheck.java:47)
        at org.briarproject.briar.desktop.DaggerBriarDesktopApp.injectEagerSingletons(DaggerBriarDesktopApp.java:1444)
        at org.briarproject.briar.desktop.DaggerBriarDesktopApp.inject(DaggerBriarDesktopApp.java:1336)
        at org.briarproject.bramble.BrambleCoreEagerSingletons$Helper.injectEagerSingletons(BrambleCoreEagerSingletons.java:48)
        at org.briarproject.briar.desktop.Main.run(Main.kt:75)
        at com.github.ajalt.clikt.parsers.Parser.parse(Parser.kt:198)
        at com.github.ajalt.clikt.parsers.Parser.parse(Parser.kt:18)
        at com.github.ajalt.clikt.core.CliktCommand.parse(CliktCommand.kt:395)
        at com.github.ajalt.clikt.core.CliktCommand.parse$default(CliktCommand.kt:392)
        at com.github.ajalt.clikt.core.CliktCommand.main(CliktCommand.kt:410)
        at com.github.ajalt.clikt.core.CliktCommand.main(CliktCommand.kt:435)
        at org.briarproject.briar.desktop.MainKt.main(Main.kt:102)

Happens with different distributions of JDK 11 (openjdk and temurin) and also when running (not building) with JDK 17 (azul)