![]() "We're on board with the approach that customers shouldn't have to care about things like where their files are," Agile Bits spokesperson David Chartier told Ars. While it took some work on the company's end, including a removal of some functionality and flexibility from the software, Agile Bits believes it was the right way to go. ![]() To encourage developers to adopt the sandboxing APIs, Apple first set a deadline that all apps approved for distribution via the Mac App Store would be required to implement sandboxing by November of this year.Īgile Bits was quick to add sandboxing support to its popular password locker app 1Password in anticipation of the original November deadline. (Be sure to click the link for a more detailed explanation of Mac OS X's particular implementation of sandboxing.)Īs Siracusa noted, Apple has slowly added sandboxing facilities into Mac OS X over the last few versions, but added APIs to allow third-party apps to use sandboxing as part of Mac OS X Lion. But if an application becomes compromised, it may be coerced into doing something destructive. Obviously, a well-behaved application will not do this. For example, a normal application run by a user has the ability to delete every single file owned by that user. A sandboxed application voluntarily surrenders the ability to do many things that a normal process run by the same user could do. Running an application inside a sandbox is meant to minimize the damage that could be caused if that application is compromised by a piece of malware. Our own John Siracusa described sandboxing in his epic Lion review: This increases overall security, as apps can't run roughshod over other parts of the system-they can only, in the worst case, ruin their own sandbox. IOS has, from the beginning, required all apps to run in their own "sandbox," partitioned off from other apps and part of the operating system. Ars spoke to a few experts in order to understand the tradeoffs Apple's sandboxing implementation will cause both developers and end users. Still, while some developers were already prepared for the November deadline, others are struggling with what they see as imposing limitations or reduced functionality in the sandboxing APIs. ![]() Apple originally set a November deadline for apps sold through the Mac App Store to use Lion's new sandboxing framework for increased security, but the company told developers on Wednesday that the deadline had been pushed back to March 1, 2012. ![]() Photo illustration by Aurich Lawson reader comments 148 withĪpple has given developers a few more months to either come to grips with its new app sandboxing requirements or say goodbye to the Mac App Store. ![]()
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