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As much as I sometime dislike Apple's walled garden App Store it does prevent things like this from happening (on iOS, at least).

Sandboxing of Mac App Store apps is also another good step, but we still need ways to install system components like codecs without giving away the keys to the castle.

As an aside, I've been trying to figure out how to use dtrace to get a log of all files touched by an application or installer (including sub-processes). If anyone has a good solution I'd love to hear it.




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