Ever since the kids from Silicon Valley went to TechCrunch, I’ve been thinking that at some point I’d want to put a piece there. Luckily, I recently got the chance. Today, 16 Apple Security Advances To Take Note Of In 2016 went up on TechCrunch. You can access the article here.
The original article actually listed the year that each was introduced in order. It was a lot of work to go back in time and piece the timeline together, so since the years didn’t make it through editorial, I list them here (not that anyone actually cares):
- 2002: Managed Preferences
- 2003: FileVault
- 2004: Require all software installers that need system resources to prompt for a password
- 2005: Restrict setuid and setgid in scripts
- 2007: Time Machine
- 2007: Application Firewall
- 2007: ASLR(Address Space Layout Randomization)
- 2009: Application Sandboxing
- 2009: XProtect, or File Quarantine
- 2008: Antiphishing
- 2010: The Mac App Store
- 2012: Gatekeeper
- 2012: Mobile Device Management
- 2013: iCloud Keychain
- 2015: System Integrity Protection, or SIP
And yes, since I was there for each of these, I did feel old writing this… :-/
And yes, thank you for asking, I did just publish another book on Mac Security, which you can buy here. 