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		saagarjha on Nov 8, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Multiple new macOS sandbox escape vulnerabilities No, it has nothing in to do with NeXTSTEP. XPC was designed recently and for macOS/iOS. This is just that it was not designed with security in mind along this axis.

agsnu on Nov 9, 2024 | [–]

XPC has been in shipping platforms for more than 13 years... I suppose that is recent compared to NEXTstep :)

pjmlp on Nov 9, 2024 | [–]

That is the thing, the OS architecture wasn't revamped across the board, XPC became another little island how to do IPC.

saagarjha on Nov 9, 2024 | [–]

It's definitely a big island on Darwin

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