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Systrace for Mac OS X

Posted by pudge on from the monkeying-around dept.

Niels Provos writes in that he has added Mac OS X support for Systrace, a sandboxing/application confinement tool that can be used to increase application and service security. It installs a new kernel to support /dev/systrace and the Systrace application, and a Cocoa frontend.

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  1. Kernel vendors by m0rph3us0 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yeah, because if your vendor made it then it must be secure.....

    Why not just take a look at the source... its more readily available than the source for Mac OS X.

  2. Re:Proprietary by Gropo · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Eh? Think about the volume of 5+ hour battery-life portables currently on the desks and laps of OSS phreaks... You don't think they have any motivation to port apps over?

    Fink's Package DB indicates that the 'big momentum' has already begun...

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