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		nimrody on Nov 3, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why the Mac App Sandbox makes me sad Apple may eventually disable loading of executables which are not cryptographically signed. At this point, you'll have to resort to kernel patches to bypass that mechanism and load non-authorized applications. Hopefully, Apple will leave a way to disable code verification. At least for advanced users.

spc476 on Nov 4, 2011 [–]

I see the following in syslog from my Mac: no system signature for unsigned /Applications/Firefox.app. I've been seeing this for the past couple of years now (and it's not restricted to Firefox by the way).

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