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The number of safeguards they have in place make that a moot point. If it's not discovered in testing, it's sandboxed. If it gets past the sandbox, they have a
by dkonofalski 9y ago
The number of safeguards they have in place make that a moot point. If it's not discovered in testing, it's sandboxed. If it gets past the sandbox, they have a killswitch that's registered to the app's specific ID. There's very little damage that an app can do if it's gone through the App Store proper.
- mikeash 9y agoThat could be done for sideloaded apps too.
- dkonofalski 9y agoSideloaded apps, by definition, are not tracked individually by Apple. You can't make a killswitch for an app if you don't know what the app is.
- mikeash 9y agoAnd yet the Mac has a malware killswitch. Clearly it can be done.
- dkonofalski 9y agoSource? The Mac only has the ability to prevent unsigned apps from being installed which is easily disabled. There's no killswitch for unsigned apps.