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App Store approval limbo boxes in Briefs

by Michael Rose (Aug 27th, 2010)

There are plenty of hurdles between a good idea and App Store success; even after your killer app hits the virtual shelves, the challenges of discoverability and competitors sandbagging your app with Astroturfed bad reviews add up to plenty of headaches. Still, once past the biggest stumbling block ...

ARDAgent setuid allows root access, but there's a sort-of fix

by Michael Rose (Jun 19th, 2008)

Updates: See the end of the post for current info. We've been getting quite a bit of email since yesterday's anonymous Slashdot posting of a security problem with ARDAgent on Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5, and there's plenty of Twittering going on over the issue. Here's the deal: ARDAgent is the ...