AFAIK, Safari does not run in the sandbox, only user installed apps do. (Could be wrong on this, I know that since IOS 2.0 or so the vast majority of apps run as the mobile user instead of root)
All apps are run in a sandbox. Unless there is some major privilege escalation exploit that also escapes the sandbox, this is extremely unlikely. I haven't heard of it ever happening in the large number of apps published so far.
OSX is far more open than Windows ever has been. The kernel and many of the non-Cocoa user apps are available under an open source license. It's mostly GUI components that are proprietary (but hell, you could always use Xorg).
Lies.
They've never used the TPM chip.
They've always relied on modern computers having EFI disabled. (Most computers ship with the Framework, which is EFI based, but EFI support is complete disabled and only the BIOS compatibility mode is used.
Source: http://osxbook.com/book/bonus/chapter10/tpm/
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Yeah, nobody gives a fuck about one of the most valuable companies in the world.
His friend apparently had never synced it ever before. How you manage to pull that one off is beyond me.
AFAIK, Safari does not run in the sandbox, only user installed apps do. (Could be wrong on this, I know that since IOS 2.0 or so the vast majority of apps run as the mobile user instead of root)
All apps are run in a sandbox. Unless there is some major privilege escalation exploit that also escapes the sandbox, this is extremely unlikely. I haven't heard of it ever happening in the large number of apps published so far.
OSX is far more open than Windows ever has been. The kernel and many of the non-Cocoa user apps are available under an open source license. It's mostly GUI components that are proprietary (but hell, you could always use Xorg).
Lies. They've never used the TPM chip. They've always relied on modern computers having EFI disabled. (Most computers ship with the Framework, which is EFI based, but EFI support is complete disabled and only the BIOS compatibility mode is used. Source: http://osxbook.com/book/bonus/chapter10/tpm/