A New Era of macOS Sandbox Escapes

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  1. simbple

    macOS Sandbox Profile Language (SBPL) Interpreter

    SBPL is interesting. Some details here: https://github.com/0xbf00/simbple

    I'm curious if there's a Scheme interpreter somewhere as part of macos that consumes these?

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  3. winevdm

    16-bit Windows (Windows 1.x, 2.x, 3.0, 3.1, etc.) on 64-bit Windows

    You can run 16-bit Windows (Windows 1.x, 2.x, 3.0, 3.1, etc.) on 64-bit Windows with https://github.com/otya128/winevdm

    I got Microsoft Encarta 98 to work this way

  4. iTerm2

    iTerm2 is a terminal emulator for Mac OS X that does amazing things.

  5. xcodes

    The best command-line tool to install and switch between multiple versions of Xcode.

  6. XcodesApp

    The easiest way to install and switch between multiple versions of Xcode - with a mouse click.

  7. nix

    Nix, the purely functional package manager

    O/t but if any sandbox experts know of strategies to get around the maximum "pattern serialization length" limitation, this issue has been driving me nuts for quite a while: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/4119

    Unfortunately sandbox-exec isn't really documented (and supposedly deprecated?) so trying to sort this out is a bit of a headache.

  8. Microsoft Research Detours Package

    Detours is a software package for monitoring and instrumenting API calls on Windows. It is distributed in source code form.

  9. quBSD

    A FreeBSD jails and bhyve wrapper, which implements a Qubes inspired containerization schema

    Not OpenBSD but FreeBSD: https://github.com/BawdyAnarchist/quBSD

    > quBSD is a FreeBSD jails/bhyve wrapper which implements a Qubes inspired containerization schema. Written in shell, based on zfs, and uses the underlying FreeBSD tools.

    Not saying it'll do what you want, but the idea is out there...

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