Re: Sandboxing. WTF?
Re: Sandboxing. WTF?
- Subject: Re: Sandboxing. WTF?
- From: Graham Cox <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 29 May 2012 10:49:29 +1000
On 29/05/2012, at 10:40 AM, Kyle Sluder wrote:
> On May 28, 2012, at 7:59 PM, Graham Cox <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Nobody has written a better analysis, critique and alternative suggestion for sandboxing than Wil Shipley: http://blog.wilshipley.com/2011/11/real-security-in-mac-os-x-requires.html
>>
>> But Apple haven't taken any notice of this as far as anyone can tell, and that's that. We're stuck with it.
>
> Uh, in 10.8 they implemented almost *exactly* the scheme Wil described: http://www.apple.com/macosx/mountain-lion/security.html
Yes, but *as well as* sandboxing, not instead of. The current implementation of sandboxing is extremely clunky, full of holes, and solves no real problems. If it were revoked tomorrow, I can't believe anybody here would mourn it - honestly?
G.
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