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Paolo Fabio Zaino
Personal blog · paolozaino.wordpress.comsecurityprogramming
Paolo Fabio Zaino's personal blog at paolozaino.wordpress.com covers security and programming. Since 2017, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “How to run your Mac OS applications in a secure sandbox”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-08, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this blog's posts on running programs inside the macOS app sandbox and on a RISC OS desktop modernization project. The comments cite them as sources and do not judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
An independent blog about professional software engineering, cybersecurity, tech industry insights, and retrocomputing fun.
Most-linked posts?
- How to run your Mac OS applications in a secure sandbox2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-06-14
What Hacker News says?
> The thing is, you cannot harden it even more. Yes, you can. You seem to have never used Trusted Solaris implementing the B1 TCSEC level and running on the certified hardware where all system objects are labelled and MAC is enforced at the kernel level. That is an example of a much more locked down system, which you are conjuring up OS X to be but the OS X is nowhere near to being that locked down nor controlled. T…
Comment linking /2015/10/20/maximum-security-and-privacy-using-mac-os-sandbox-and-tor-browser-bundle/
on “Why Jony Ive left Apple to the ‘accountants’”Submitted How to run your Mac OS applications in a secure sandbox as a story · 4 points
HN discussionOn the topic of untrusted executables, is there a decent GUI to run arbitrary programs inside the MacOS app sandbox? Last I checked, users still had to fiddle with config files and command-line incantations, but at least it was possible: https://paolozaino.wordpress.com/2015/08/04/how-to-run-your-...
Comment linking /2015/08/04/how-to-run-your-applications-in-a-mac-os-x-sandbox-to-enhance-security/
on “Scuttlebutt – A decentralized secure gossip platform”There's been the Desktop Modernization Engine / Project https://paolozaino.wordpress.com/portfolio/risc-os-desktop-m... discussion here: https://www.riscosopen.org/forum/forums/1/topics/17696 Development seems to have stalled / slowed down.
Comment linking /portfolio/risc-os-desktop-modernisation-project/
on “Got an old Raspberry Pi spare? Try RISC OS. It is, something else”