#SANDBOXIE FOR MAC SOFTWARE#
It's easy to give a type of software a cutesy name, like "malware", but what we're actually talking about here is perpetration of premeditated, criminal acts. It also dramatically stifles the industry's ability to innovate on the platform. Sandboxing and the other measures imposed by the app store owners lulls users into a dangerously false sense of security by implying that apps which run in a sandbox are automatically not malicious - which simply is not true. If you only watch one YouTube video today, watch this one: Here's just one - particularly terrifying - example via Daring Fireball that shows how an app-store-acceptable app can be crafted to download and execute an arbitrary payload that gives total control over the device. As we'll see, the real menace to computing, both mobile and desktop, has been that it's all but impossible for vendors to remove "holes" in system software, or commonly installed apps, that can be exploited.
#SANDBOXIE FOR MAC CODE#
The issue that we developers have is that app store owners can arbitrarily define hoops that we have to jump through in order to get our code up there, but that's not the problem. Apple's move with regards to requiring developers to implement sandboxing with the Mac App Store (MAS) and OS X route implies that its engineers feel it's proven such a good idea on the iPhone and iPad that Mac users might as well "benefit" as well. In the mobile world we've typically always had sandboxing. A common example is that sandboxed applications typically cannot write to any folder on disk that they fancy. Sandboxing looks to control the rights of installed applications so that they don't automatically have carte blanche over the whole machine. Normal software applications, once installed, usually have free rein over the entire computer and its peripherals. (Sandboxing? We'll explain.) With Windows 8, Metro apps also requiring sandboxing, it looks like industry players seem to think this will in some way control the malware menace. A t the end of last week, Apple noted that it was moving towards requiring sandboxing for all apps distributed on the Mac App Store.
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