Although expected, I think his experience is a good example of the short comings of the app store. (Whereby many useful apps require root/admin access, somethin

Although expected, I think his experience is a good example of the short comings of the app store. (Whereby many useful apps require root/admin access, something which is not allowable on the app store, e.g. imagine apps surreptitiously adding extra entries to the hosts file along side your legitimate entries.) It can also be argued here that an app should never have access to your hosts file, as this trivialises man in the middle attacks. With the scare mongering aside, overall the prefpane is really useful and well written and I recommend it for anyone who does frequent changes/additions to the hosts file. (It lets you just click on/off hosts and is updated automatically, apple really need something like this in their own system tools.)