MPLAB X IPE has a grey connect button under MacOS

I hadn't touched MPLAB-X for a year. I have a little PIC32 EK starter kit that I use for some automation. I was attempting to make a copy of the board that I had, and at some point, the IPE stopped "allowing" the connection to the board under MacOS.

So, what I figured, which turned out to be true is that a security policy overwrote the original privleges. I went into "Security and Privacy" and added the mplab-ipe application AND the java executalbe that it uses as a developer application.

After that, everything is fine.

...except that's 2 hours of my life that I'll never get back. I'm sure there's some log file that says what has been blocked via secuirty policy, but I've yet to find it. I even asked the "Internet".