Michael Tsai on Twitter: "@rosyna @ameaijou @drewthaler But only specific targets/ports that are known at compile time, right?"

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Michael Tsai ‏@mjtsai Feb 15

@rosyna So you’re saying that the reason the Mac App Store requires sandboxing is to protect against Flash, which most apps don’t use?
Rosyna Keller ‏@rosyna Feb 15

@mjtsai No, it's to prevent bugs in the apps from being exploited and doing harm to other parts of the system.
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Michael Tsai ‏@mjtsai Feb 15

@rosyna But, aside from your example of Flash, where is the code that’s exploiting these bugs?
Rosyna Keller ‏@rosyna Feb 15

@mjtsai The bugs are in the apps. The malicious code is delivered multiple ways. Wikipedia has an article on RCE. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbitrary_code_execution …
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Drew Thaler ‏@drewthaler Feb 15

@rosyna @mjtsai Or touch that file or whatever. But notice that Spotify isn't malicious, in the example it's hijacked and becomes malicious
Rosyna Keller ‏@rosyna Feb 15

@drewthaler @mjtsai That actually happened to Twitter for Mac OS X a few years ago due to an image parsing bug.
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Michael Tsai ‏@mjtsai Feb 15

@rosyna @drewthaler Even for things that would never be approved in the Mac App Store, so that every Developer ID app can be sandboxed.
Gwynne Raskind ‏@ameaijou Feb 15

@mjtsai @rosyna @drewthaler If such entitlements existed, a lot of Developer ID apps would be on the store.
Rosyna Keller ‏@rosyna Feb 15

@ameaijou @mjtsai @drewthaler Which are currently missing?
Rosyna Keller ‏@rosyna Feb 15

@ameaijou @mjtsai @drewthaler Also, non-MAS Apps can declare sandbox exceptions for AppleEvents and Mach messaging, the two major issues.

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@rosyna @ameaijou @drewthaler But only specific targets/ports that are known at compile time, right?

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