{"id":5141,"date":"2012-06-22T17:45:42","date_gmt":"2012-06-22T22:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=5141"},"modified":"2018-02-13T14:39:47","modified_gmt":"2018-02-13T19:39:47","slug":"litter-boxing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/22\/litter-boxing\/","title":{"rendered":"Litter Boxing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.macdrifter.com\/2012\/06\/litter-boxing\/\">Gabe Weatherhead<\/a>:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.macdrifter.com\/2012\/06\/litter-boxing\/\"><p>Sandboxing is intended to protect Mac users from malware and poorly designed apps. I think it will accomplish some of these goals, but with a high price.<\/p>\r\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\r\n<p>I would like a control in the preferences app to allow App Store apps to override core OS functionality and escape <em>some<\/em> of the sandboxing rules. Let&rsquo;s call it &ldquo;geek-mode&rdquo; for now. Geek-mode should take effort to find. Geek-mode should require a password. If geek-mode is off, the App Store should not show apps that require it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\r\n<p>In my view, there should be entitlements available for everything that apps want to do. This would allow every app to be sandboxed, but apps would be prevented from doing things they aren&rsquo;t supposed to be doing. Then, because every app comes with its list of entitlements, it would be possible for the system or the store to make the user opt-in to access apps that are potentially dangerous or confusing.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gabe Weatherhead: Sandboxing is intended to protect Mac users from malware and poorly designed apps. I think it will accomplish some of these goals, but with a high price. [&#8230;] I would like a control in the preferences app to allow App Store apps to override core OS functionality and escape some of the sandboxing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[30,53],"class_list":["post-5141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-mac","tag-sandboxing"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5141"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5143,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5141\/revisions\/5143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}