On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 7:17 AM, Francis E Reyes
wrote:
> The problem is not developers ensuring their identities by signing their
> apps. It's that there's now a (small) barrier for the end user in installing
> unsigned apps.
>
> The implementation has yet to be seen, but will getting around t
Hi Tim,
we all get the "aschott notification" - I don't know her, but I do know about
the CIPF, the Centro de Investigacion Principe Felipe in Valencia, Spain. This
centre recently laid off an important number of researchers and I would guess
she was one of them - so I doubt she will want anythi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
Dear Francis,
not sure what you are trying to say. Many people have been securing
their software e.g. with md5sums or PGP-signatures. Debian do that, and
they do it for free as far as I know. You could sign your own software
(for free) and then distri
Hi Tim
The problem is not developers ensuring their identities by signing their apps.
It's that there's now a (small) barrier for the end user in installing unsigned
apps.
The implementation has yet to be seen, but will getting around this barrier
simply be a pop up ("press OK if you reall
It seems that Apple is building a higher walled garden for OS X in the form of
signed binaries. They're not mandating every app come from the appstore but
instead have a level that allows developers to 'sign' their binaries with their
own developer ID (which of course costs $99USD/year). Or the
