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Re:New Mac ransomware spreading through piracy by jbverschoor on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @02:17AM (#23698328)
We simply need better sandboxing, and on by default. In a way it’s also usable for normal people.

Mac has the sandbox runner, with a configuration file. However it’s deprecated, and difficult to create.

Also, not even Facebook signs all their apps.

It’s funny, bc everybody is kicking and yelling against the AppStore, and the process. But it’s the only thing protecting everybody from misuse

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Re:New Mac ransomware spreading through piracy by skinnymuch on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @05:09AM (#23699463)
iOS App Store? Were there any [major] issues with jailbroken iPhones running cracked apps? Especially before when jailbreaking and pirating iOS apps was a bigger portion of users and culture.

It was and is a small number of people regardless. I’m not sure if that’s going to be the “reason” nothing happened. If so, it doesn’t seem like that can conclude protection from misuse.

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