John Gruber
Update on the Blizzard/sandbox thing, from a birdie familiar with the matter: Blizzard’s updater had a crasher. Apple created workaround.
Blizzard gets a hard-coded exemption to the iOS and MacOS sandboxes? Yikes:https://storify.com/gruber/blizzard-exemption-to-ios-and-macos-sandbox …
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Practically speaking, all sandboxing rules still apply to Blizzard apps; workaround doesn’t allow operations that other apps can’t do too.
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And Blizzard has fixed their updater, so the workaround shouldn’t be needed in next update.
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My takeaway is that Apple will go to extraordinary lengths to avoid crashers in super-popular apps, even when it’s entirely the app’s fault.
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@gruber might be interesting if the birdies can shed light on the criteria for the apps they can't break. - View other replies
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@chronic My guess is there are no criteria — it’s a “We know them when we see them” thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_know_it_when_I_see_it …
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@gruber Twitter has Collections—a better, native way to “Storify”: https://dev.twitter.com/rest/collections …@benthompson’s example: https://twitter.com/benthompson/timelines/735873166099128325 … -
@andrewe@benthompson Does that only work with TweetDeck? - View other replies
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@gruber@benthompson They are created in TweedDeck or https://curator.twitter.com , viewable in Twitter app and web, also Tweetbot. -
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@gruber What is that code being shown from? - View other replies
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@radiocolin A decompiler. Probably Hopper: http://www.hopperapp.com
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@gruber@marcoarment No, it was later discovered that only access() is impacted. This means that the program thinks it has one but don’t -
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@gruber it's an targeted exception for the rather innocuous access() calls. https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/System/Conceptual/ManPages_iPhoneOS/man2/access.2.html … -
@gruber The security warning on the man page is because access() is subject to race conditions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_of_check_to_time_of_use#Examples …
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@gruber@drbarnard some developers are more equal than others
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@gruber not even slightly surprising, and I mean that without a shred of cynicism. They've moved mountains to keep Facebook working on iOS
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