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Give up? I wish more apps were sandboxed! If an app can function inside the sandbox (and the overwhelming majority of apps have no problem with being sandboxed)
by eridius 10y ago
Give up? I wish more apps were sandboxed! If an app can function inside the sandbox (and the overwhelming majority of apps have no problem with being sandboxed) then they absolutely should be. It's a major security benefit.
- izacus 10y agoExcept that there are whole swaths of tools and applications that cannot be published at all due to limitations of Sandbox, making your computer limited to a whim of someone on the other side of the world.
- eridius 10y agoYes they can, they just can't be published on the Mac App Store. But the existence of the MAS does not affect anybody's ability to distribute applications outside of it. > making your computer limited to a whim of someone on the other side of the world That's a really weird way to say this. Security is not a whim.
- megablast 10y agoAnd those ones you need to install? What is the problem? Are you upset because the app store doesn't solve every problem, just a lot of them?
- mikestew 10y agoExcept that there are whole swaths of tools and applications that cannot be published at all due to limitations of Sandbox You're right, just ditch whole damned sandbox thing because a few tools won't work. Or in an ideal world where we didn't have to decide between one extreme or the other, we could sandbox everything that doesn't have a problem with it, reserving the exceptions for those few tools that don't get along well with a sandbox. (Vetting the hell out of those non-sandbox apps, of course, because we don't want to "<make our computer> limited to the whim of someone on the other side of the world" which in this case wouldn't be Apple.)