Comments on: Apple’s Gatekeeper: Malware Protection? Or The Mark Of The Beast? http://valhalladsp.wordpress.com/2012/05/11/apples-gatekeeper-malware-protection-or-the-mark-of-the-beast/ Tue, 05 Mar 2013 21:10:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: xxJPRACERxx http://valhalladsp.wordpress.com/2012/05/11/apples-gatekeeper-malware-protection-or-the-mark-of-the-beast/#comment-1213 Fri, 08 Jun 2012 04:12:25 +0000 http://valhalladsp.wordpress.com/?p=1109#comment-1213 For years I’ve been using checksums (md5 and/or sha-1) and trying to convince devs to use them. It’s “kind of” like a signature and it’s unobtrusive. The only problem is people must do the check manually but this take one second. This is the big difference with the signature method. If you forget to check then you can be at risk. Checksums is also helpful to be 100% sure that every bits of a download or a file transfer was done correctly.

Everybody should be using them. If you’re on PC I suggest “HashCheck Shell Extension”.

]]> By: metalifuxx http://valhalladsp.wordpress.com/2012/05/11/apples-gatekeeper-malware-protection-or-the-mark-of-the-beast/#comment-1199 Tue, 22 May 2012 06:51:59 +0000 http://valhalladsp.wordpress.com/?p=1109#comment-1199 I wish I could find the image I did for a graphic design project in college. It’s the classic time stop photo of a bullet going through an apple, only the other half/end is faded/merged with the old 1st generation very round CRT style iMac? circa 2002-2004 (profile view) , with the bullet exploding out of a decimated shrapnel infused hole on the back of the iMac. I guess my prophecy was right.

]]> By: seancostello http://valhalladsp.wordpress.com/2012/05/11/apples-gatekeeper-malware-protection-or-the-mark-of-the-beast/#comment-1189 Mon, 14 May 2012 16:21:15 +0000 http://valhalladsp.wordpress.com/?p=1109#comment-1189 It is optional, but a much STRONGER optional.

I’ll actually be signing my future plugins, but as the signing requires Xcode 4, it will change my workflow, and will force me to no longer make PPC/10.4 builds.

]]> By: Dean Aka Nekro http://valhalladsp.wordpress.com/2012/05/11/apples-gatekeeper-malware-protection-or-the-mark-of-the-beast/#comment-1188 Mon, 14 May 2012 15:21:39 +0000 http://valhalladsp.wordpress.com/?p=1109#comment-1188 Seems like another pain in the arse to be honest from my point of view and hopefully as nomadetech said above – It will be optional not mandatory

]]> By: Caixa http://valhalladsp.wordpress.com/2012/05/11/apples-gatekeeper-malware-protection-or-the-mark-of-the-beast/#comment-1187 Sat, 12 May 2012 23:11:29 +0000 http://valhalladsp.wordpress.com/?p=1109#comment-1187 “…with the App Store eventually becoming the only source of software for the Mac…” That would be a real shot in foot. There’s a lot of software, particularly in music production that is simply too large (Ivory, Spectrasonics, Toontrack) to be made available download only, even if we do all end up with fibre right up to our routers.

For years we’ve not needed any kind of protection on the Mac. I’ve never used any anti-virus software and I download all sorts of stuff! The one and only time I picked anything up was in 1998 when there was a worm going about that caused the finder to freeze for 30s every few minutes. It came in on a client’s disk and quickly spread across the whole network. Fortunately there was a cleaner on the then current Macworld CD and it was promptly banished in a matter of minutes.

But times are changing and so perhaps we do need something like Gatekeeper. I’d rather that than Norton any day of the week, regardless of motives. And don’t they say “better the devil you know…”?

]]> By: nomadetech http://valhalladsp.wordpress.com/2012/05/11/apples-gatekeeper-malware-protection-or-the-mark-of-the-beast/#comment-1183 Fri, 11 May 2012 21:06:37 +0000 http://valhalladsp.wordpress.com/?p=1109#comment-1183 like Windows you’ll be given a choice to install it or not. Don’t worry.

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