Category Archives: mach

How to hire Graham Lee

Posted on 2010-03-02 by Graham Lee

There are few people who can say that when it comes to Cocoa application security, they wrote the book. In fact, I can think of only one: me. I’ve just put the final draft together for Professional Cocoa Application Security … Continue reading →

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Mach-OFS: aforementioned polish and functionality

Posted on 2008-02-17 by Graham Lee

It’s getting there, now has the ability to display load commands (though it only reports useful information for LC_SEGMENT and LC_SEGMENT_64 commands): Again the screenshot depicts the OmniDazzle binary for no reason other than it’s a nontrivial file. The directions … Continue reading →

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Mach-O FS (no really, MacFUSE does rule)

Posted on 2008-02-10 by Graham Lee

It needs some polishing and more functionality before I’d call it useful, then I have to find out whether I’m allowed to do anything with the source code ;-). But this is at least quite a cool hack; exploring a … Continue reading →

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MacFUSE rules

Posted on 2008-02-09 by Graham Lee

One reason that microkernels win over everything else (piss off, Linus) is that stability is better, because less stuff is running in the dangerous and all-powerful kernel environment. MacFUSE, like FUSE implementations on other UNIX-like operating systems, takes the microkernel … Continue reading →

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Eating one’s own dog food

Posted on 2007-01-12 by Graham Lee

I feel foolish for having made this error (especially after having so patiently explained how this stuff works on Mach), but today I did it. I reported the amount of free memory on a Linux system as being the amount … Continue reading →

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