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  Re: OS X security tools - trivial to bypass? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-04-27 16:34 +0000

#74341 — Re: OS X security tools - trivial to bypass?

On 2015-04-27, Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> wrote:
> On 2015-04-27 11:45, Jolly Roger wrote:
>>
>> My take:
>>
>> *yawn*
>
> That's too dismissive given the claims.  The issue isn't the running of 
> arbitrary code but how that code can be loaded and executed because of 
> defects in the security system.
>
> Don't dismiss this too quickly.

I'm not dismissing it, but it's certainly not anything to panic about
either - hence the *yawn*. And what you call "defects" may be deliberate
design choices, where Apple has implemented a base-level set of
functionality with plans to add more functionality later on. 

I'm betting a few years from now, if we were to revisit this topic in
depth, we'll find that Apple has done just that, which is not at all
uncommon for Apple.

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