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Researchers claim to have discovered a vulnerability with the sandbox security mechanism used by Apple. The sandbox, which is baked into the kernel of Mac OS X, is designed to apply application restrictions, so that code that has no reason to access a network isn't able to access a corporate LAN or the internet, for example. …

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  1. Tchou
    Trollface

    I remember when Apple pundits branded their systems as immune to any attacks...

    .... G'd old times...

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      Anonymous Coward

      Obviously you don't understand what this article is discussing

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      1. Tchou
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        Trollface

        Could you elaborate and enlighten me?

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        1. Ramazan
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          Re: Tchou

          Neither system is immune, unless the weakest link is eliminated - the user. Sandboxed app may ask him to execute sudo rm -rf / for example, citing some urgent reason, like to save the world from imminent disaster

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  2. Richard 31
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    Feature

    Isn't this just akin to the standard practice of relabelling a bug a feature and pretending it's not there?

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  3. Gio Ciampa
    Coat

    It's not a vulnerability...

    ...they've written their code wrong...

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  4. Anonymous Coward
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    http://www.loopinsight.com/2011/11/14/core-found-something-but-it-wasnt-a-sandboxing-security-hole/

    for another take on what Core found.

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      So it is safe if hackers act like Apple wants but unsafe if they don't?

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