Category Archives: launchd

Layers of Distraction

A discussion I was involved in over on Facebook reminded me of some other issues I’d already drafted for this blog, so I stuck the two together and here we are. Software systems can often be seen as aggregations of … Continue reading

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On stopping service management abuse

In chapter 2 of their book The Mac Hacker’s Handbook (is there only one Mac hacker?), Charlie Miller and Dino Dai Zovi note that an attacker playing with a sandboxed process could break out of the sandbox via launchd. The … Continue reading

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