On 22 Feb 2014, at 00:12, Ken Thomases wrote:
> On Feb 21, 2014, at 3:17 PM, jonat...@mugginsoft.com wrote:
>
>> So I want to be able to send the same message to any class and get an
>> appropriate void* pointer.
>
> There's no one representation of its content, so there's no way for any
> r
You did go to this page, right?
https://developer.apple.com/membercenter/index.action#requestTechSupport
I remembered one form on the site, not this one, that I had to submit by
deleting all the data and doing it again. Some freaky web page issue; I think
it was a phone number field that kept t
On Feb 21, 2014, at 10:38 PM, Bradley O'Hearne
wrote:
> This is not the case on Windows. It provides the ability to block certain
> things which public API on OS X does not.
His point was that counting on that is not reliable.
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Scott Ribe
scott_r...@elevated-dev.com
http://www.elevated-dev
On Feb 21, 2014, at 9:43 PM, dangerwillrobinsondan...@gmail.com wrote:
> They're pointing out valid security issues which are true on all platforms.
…
> On any platform, you will need to basically install and run a root kit.
This is not the case on Windows. It provides the ability to block cert
> On 2014/02/22, at 11:13, Bradley O'Hearne wrote:
>
>> On Feb 21, 2014, at 3:02 PM, Jens Alfke wrote:
>>
>>
>>> On Feb 21, 2014, at 1:26 PM, Bradley O'Hearne
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> If that is the case, then once I can officially confirm this, then I’ll
>>> drop the pursuit.
>>
>> The key wo
On Feb 21, 2014, at 3:02 PM, Jens Alfke wrote:
> The best answer I’ve seen is that you’ll need to file a DTS support incident
> and go through those official channels.
I’ve spent the last hour trying to post an issue to DTS via the Apple Mac
Developer Program Member Center….no dice. Despite t
On Feb 21, 2014, at 3:02 PM, Jens Alfke wrote:
>
> On Feb 21, 2014, at 1:26 PM, Bradley O'Hearne
> wrote:
>
>> If that is the case, then once I can officially confirm this, then I’ll drop
>> the pursuit.
>
> The key word is “officially”. There’s not really any point to discussing it
> her
On Feb 21, 2014, at 3:17 PM, jonat...@mugginsoft.com wrote:
> I have an NSNumber containing 5.
> The NSNumber instance is a key in a dictionary collection.
> In order to obtain the value I need to pass a pointer to a memory location
> containing 5 to Mono.
> However not all keys in the dictionar
On Feb 21, 2014, at 2:30 PM, SevenBits wrote:
> Well, yes, but Apple has the source code to OS X. There’s an important
> difference in that users cannot simply just delete important OS components.
> In some other operating systems (e.g Linux) everything works with packages
> and you can simply
On Feb 21, 2014, at 2:26 PM, Bradley O'Hearne wrote:
> Industries such as medical (HIPAA), legal, government, education, military
> defense, etc. all have such security needs.
Well, there's certainly no such need for HIPAA compliance...
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Scott Ribe
scott_r...@elevated-dev.com
http://www.ele
On Feb 21, 2014, at 1:26 PM, Bradley O'Hearne wrote:
> I believe it would be much more accurate to say that this is a fundamental
> issue of whether OS X provides an app the ability to secure its content or
> not. If the answer is that having an app on OS X is synonymous with having
> the cont
On Feb 21, 2014, at 5:19 PM, Ron Hunsinger wrote:
>
> On Feb 21, 2014, at 1:26 PM, Bradley O'Hearne
> wrote:
>> I believe it would be much more accurate to say that this is a fundamental
>> issue of whether OS X provides an app the ability to secure its content or
>> not. If the answer is th
On Feb 21, 2014, at 1:26 PM, Bradley O'Hearne wrote:
> If that is the case, then once I can officially confirm this, then I’ll drop
> the pursuit.
The key word is “officially”. There’s not really any point to discussing it
here. We already had this exact same discussion a few months ago and
On Feb 21, 2014, at 12:24 PM, Kyle Sluder wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 21, 2014, at 10:35 AM, Bradley O'Hearne wrote:
>> I’ll also add (not for the purposes
>> of inciting a religious debate, but for the purposes of perspective and
>> comparison), that this is one area of security where OS X surprisingly
On 21 Feb 2014, at 19:07, Fritz Anderson wrote
> int five = [@((int)5) intValue];
> SomeMonoCall("here's two more than three: ", &five);
The above is basically correct - note that I edited it a bit.
A basic point here is that you cannot take the address of an rvalue like so
&[@((int)5) intVal
On Fri, Feb 21, 2014, at 10:35 AM, Bradley O'Hearne wrote:
> I’ll also add (not for the purposes
> of inciting a religious debate, but for the purposes of perspective and
> comparison), that this is one area of security where OS X surprisingly
> gives ground to Windows. Windows exposes more abilit
On 21 Feb 2014, at 6:12 AM, jonat...@mugginsoft.com wrote:
> I require an pointer to the value represented by an NSNumber.
(Assuming “value represented” means @1 -> 1, @HUGE -> HUGE.)
> No interior pointer exists as the class is immutable.
Immutability isn’t the point. The point is that the cla
On Feb 21, 2014, at 11:07 AM, Jim Zajkowski wrote:
> It sounds like the computers are owned by the people taking the test,
> and are not owned by the testing center.
Thanks for the reply, Jim. That’s correct, this is an app that runs on the
test-taker’s computer.
> How is the test data deliv
On Feb 21, 2014, at 11:24 AM, Jens Alfke wrote:
> On Feb 21, 2014, at 9:55 AM, Bradley O'Hearne
> wrote:
>
>> when the app runs, it has to temporarily take control of their machines,
>> deliver a test such that the user doesn’t cheat (by having other apps like a
>> web browser available), and
On Feb 21, 2014, at 9:55 AM, Bradley O'Hearne wrote:
> when the app runs, it has to temporarily take control of their machines,
> deliver a test such that the user doesn’t cheat (by having other apps like a
> web browser available), and the test content isn’t copied
This sounds like a complet
It sounds like the computers are owned by the people taking the test,
and are not owned by the testing center.
How is the test data delivered to the client?
What's to prevent someone from grabbing network traffic and memory of
the test application in the background?
--Jim
On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 a
On Feb 21, 2014, at 10:08 AM, Uli Kusterer wrote:
> On 21 Feb 2014, at 17:54, Bradley O'Hearne wrote:
>> - A kiosk-type environment isn’t some kind of wacky edge use-case. The
>> question really distills down to whether or not OS X provides APIs that
>> allow an app to facilitate a secure kios
On 21 Feb 2014, at 17:54, Bradley O'Hearne wrote:
> - A kiosk-type environment isn’t some kind of wacky edge use-case. The
> question really distills down to whether or not OS X provides APIs that allow
> an app to facilitate a secure kiosk-type environment. Maybe the design
> philosophy behind
On Feb 20, 2014, at 4:23 PM, dangerwillrobinsondan...@gmail.com wrote:
>> On 2014/02/21, at 8:05, Stevo Brock wrote:
>>
>>> On Feb 20, 2014, at 2:39 PM, Jens Alfke wrote:
>>>
>>> If I were trying to circumvent this I'd just use my iPhone camera to take a
>>> photo or video of the screen. (Or op
On Feb 21, 2014, at 5:33 AM, Uli Kusterer wrote:
> On 20 Feb 2014, at 20:58, Bradley O'Hearne wrote:
>> At WWDC 2013, I approached the Apple engineering teams with a need that a
>> client of mine had to disable all screen capture while an app was running.
>> This includes the hotkeys for taki
On 20 Feb 2014, at 20:58, Bradley O'Hearne wrote:
> At WWDC 2013, I approached the Apple engineering teams with a need that a
> client of mine had to disable all screen capture while an app was running.
> This includes the hotkeys for taking screenshots, capturing displays with
> AVFoundation,
I require an pointer to the value represented by an NSNumber.
No interior pointer exists as the class is immutable.
My best attempt, a category that shadows the represented value, is as follows
though I am wondering if I have missed a trick somewhere.
NSNumber uses tagged pointers and my unit te
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