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    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by alienlover11, Feb 20, 2012.

  1. alienlover11

    alienlover11 Notebook Consultant

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    What are your thoughts and opinions? Do you think jailbreaks for mac os x will pop up?
     
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    bogatyr Notebook Evangelist

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    There is an option to turn off the feature in OS X. No need to jailbreak.

    Perhaps there will be a need in a future version but not Mountain Lion.
     
    bogatyr, Feb 20, 2012
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  3. tuηay

    tuηay o TuNaY o

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    You want to explain how bogatyr?
     
    tuηay, Feb 20, 2012
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    alienlover11 Notebook Consultant

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    ahh yes you are correct.
     
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    Gatekeeper has 3 settings:

    1) Only allow App Store apps (to be downloaded/installed)

    2) Allow 1, plus signed apps

    3) Allow 1 and 2 plus any apps from any source

    2 is interesting because Apple will allocate a developer a cert to sign the App (for free), but any products developed aren’t required to go through Apple for approval. This gives you a way to ID a known development resource, and gives Apple a mechanism to revoke their cert (for example, some kind of personal info is being transmitted without your approval).

    It’s not much different that signed apps in Winders©.

    Simple enough. Doesn’t stop you from using mode 3 (I believe there’s even a right-click override when using mode 1 or 2 with a prompted confirm). The nice thing is you can set this to admin control, and limit a user from installing apps that might be questionable (from a content or potential trojan perspective) like your kids, schools, even in a business environment.
     
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  6. doh123

    doh123 Without ME its just AWESO

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    Gonna be annoying for people who like to make wineskin wrappers, since oyur making your own app, so I can't sign them all...

    but on the other hand, its uses the system that already exists that warns you when you download an app and run it the first time. So if you choose to open it through a right click, it gets green lighted on your system and keeps working normally, signed or not... once something is OKed to run, it keeps running... it only checks again if something changes in it apparently. We cannot know for sure how it will work when released, as I'm sure they are still working on it though.

    I'm afraid that Apple is pushing App Store apps so much, that eventually users will lock down their machines voluntarily, and all developers will move themselves to the App Store, or quit making apps... Apple is trying to slowly convert Mac OS X over to be App Store only and Cocoa only, they are just being patient with it, and convincing people to do it on their own instead of forcing it.
     
    doh123, Feb 20, 2012
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