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Genbox | 3 months ago

The security of the Apple ecosystem is miles ahead of others. Every time I reverse engineer some component of their OS, it is very different from what I've seen before. I always find myself surprised by their thoughtfulness and engineering craft.

Recently I've taken on their code signing component. The concepts they've created, such as identifying applications by their "designated requirements" is a stroke of genius. It makes the system completely stateless and capable of almost anything without auxiliary data structure or additional code.

I've seen other engineering teams try and fail at building something similar, and never with such powerful simplicity.

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hulitu|3 months ago

> The security of the Apple ecosystem is miles ahead of others.

cough iMessage, hardware backdoors cough

astrange|3 months ago

There are not any hardware backdoors.

Genbox|3 months ago

That's a bit disingenuous. Can you substantiate your claims?

fsflover|3 months ago

> The security of the Apple ecosystem is miles ahead of others.

Have you heard about Qubes OS?